Re: Why is there no `until' in elisp?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have nothing to do with this, but my feeling is that Lisp developers
> in general drag their feet about adding trivial/obvious constructs to
> the standard library. As your footnote makes clear, it's a two-line code
> addition to make `until' work. There are different schools of thought
> about this: one that says "why?", and one that says "why not"? The "why
> not"s contribute to subr.el and subr-x.el :)

Personally, I grew fond of `until` and wanted to add it (even went to
the trouble of writing the corresponding byte-compiler code), but really
in 99% of the cases, you can just negate the test so the benefit
in minuscule.  But if we could go back in time, then I would definitely
replace `while` with `until`.


        Stefan