For conditional variables you gave a default value. So then why on earth do
you not have an implicit let ?
There must be a good reason.
On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 12:39 AM Maxime Devos wrote:
> Stefan Israelsson Tampe schreef op vr 04-02-2022 om 22:40 [+0100]:
> > Anyhow conditional defining vars is
Stefan Israelsson Tampe schreef op vr 04-02-2022 om 22:40 [+0100]:
> Anyhow conditional defining vars is a common theme in other languages
> so I think it was kind of natural to implement if as it was done.
AFAIK no Lisp or Scheme except for Guile < 2.0 implements conditionally
defining local vari
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From: Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Patch] definitions in when, unless, do as well as in
cond- and case-clauses
To: Maxime Devos
I tested and yes you are right, in guile conditionals do not have this
property
Stefan Israelsson Tampe schreef op vr 04-02-2022 om 21:11 [+0100]:
> using an implicit let in conditionals are bad in that you cannot
> escape from the let form which means that you loos
> conditional defines for example in the toplevel. e.g. [...]
While old versions of Guile (Guile 1.8?) did supp
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From: Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Patch] definitions in when, unless, do as well as in cond-
and case-clauses
To: Linus Björnstam
using an implicit let in conditionals are bad in that you cannot
escape from the l
