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: <3216252375706244@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: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 03:26:16 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1007263576 193.71.66.49 (Sun, 02 Dec 2001 04:26:16 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 04:26:16 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21683 * cbbrowne@acm.org | But I think the latter would cause #Erik's head to explode, so it's | not a terribly serious suggestion :-). Thank you for your concern. :) Note that if* is merely syntactic saccharin for cond. You have all the benefits of if* without either bad style or bad taste if you use cond. /// -- 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.