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!nloc1.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: On conditionals References: <3215299538573186@naggum.net> <87adxgl4iu.fsf@asaka.latnet.lv> <3BFC0E0B.4C7DA5D4@nyc.rr.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3215366151466729@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 13 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 21:15:52 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1006377352 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:15:52 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:15:52 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:20643 * Kenny Tilton | If I cannot use when for its value, why don't we just dump the whole | language? functional programming right out the window. We can make it | an error for the when conditional to evaluate to false. "Should not" is different from "cannot". Grasp this and relax, please. /// -- 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.