From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc1.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: On conditionals References: <3215299538573186@naggum.net> <9tgcpc$3ce$1@news.gte.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215360195434986@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: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:36:36 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1006371396 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:36:36 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:36:36 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:20624 * Dorai Sitaram | Looks like the CL community is about to rediscover the value (!) of the | unspecified. :-) Scheme is all wrong. Making nil different from false is nuts, and letting forms have an unspecified value is also just plain wrong. It is important that style rules be breakable. Enforcing them is wrong. /// -- 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.