From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!diablo.theplanet.net!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: I'm outta here... References: <3214866361054904@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215269388627964@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:23:09 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1006280589 193.71.66.49 (Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:23:09 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:23:09 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:20492 * Erann Gat | But that's not the topic at hand. What Erik is ranting about is John's | advocacy of a programming style that avoids the use of standard features | (cond, unless, when, loop) in favor of a non-standard one (if*). It | would not placate Erik's position to have #+ALLEGRO(defmacro if* ...) in | the code. Replace "avoid" with "forbids" and maybe you get the point. Sigh. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- Carrying a Swiss Army pocket knife in Oslo, Norway, is a criminal offense.