> Here, "where to put the parentheses" pretty much leaps out at you. > This doesn't do the same thing as COND, though, since if choice1 is T > and code1c is NIL, the OR will go on to try choice2, whereas the COND > will return the NIL, so don't do this. :)
the only way I was able to really deal with COND was to stop using it and start using IF* > So anyway, hope this provides some fertilizer (hopefully not in the > "this is crap!" sense :) for Lisp Gardeners. Larry, are you posting these articles anywhere besides the gardeners list? It might be nice to have a collection of links to them somewhere like cl-user.net or the cliki to help newbies start thinking about things like meta-linguistic abstraction Nick > > -- Larry > > > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
