Subject: Re: Little doubts with "if" clause From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 03:26:16 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3216252375706244@naggum.net> * 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.