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Re: anaphora in emacs-lisp?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: anaphora in emacs-lisp? |
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Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:55:56 -0400 |
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> If we have these, we should also have 'unless-it' and 'case-it'.
unless-it seems fabulously pointless: `it' would always be nil.
We seem to envision two different calling conventions.
I envisioned
(unless-it (+ x y) (> it 5)
...)
but I suppose you envision that 'it' is bound to the object
whose value is tested.
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