From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Little doubts with "if" clause References: <9ca131c.0112010155.19eeb52@posting.google.com> <20011201051600.F2173@emu> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3216248368595666@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 02:19:29 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1007259569 193.71.66.49 (Sun, 02 Dec 2001 03:19:29 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 03:19:29 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21678 * Coby Beck | Advised by whom? IF looks right to me.... Me, I guess, but you would probably not have seen that, kill-files being rather coarse-grained devices to block one's view to shocking truths. Go look up the article I wrote on conditionals if you can read this. The lack of an implicit progn in the if form is a hint that cond, which has an implicit progn for each branch, would be more appropriately used for bodies with side-effects and if for expressions. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.