On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> But for that there is "given". I thought the whole point of "with" vs.
> "given" was the definedness check.
Ah yes, and that's a great feature. I forgot that "with" skips over
the block when the topic is undefined, and that is very useful.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:45 PM, yary wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen
> wrote:
> > “with” is completely agnostic about what it is working on. It merely
> checks for definedness and sets the topicalizer if so.
>
> Hmm- what's the benefit of with's defined check? Seem
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> “with” is completely agnostic about what it is working on. It merely checks
> for definedness and sets the topicalizer if so.
Hmm- what's the benefit of with's defined check? Seems like it makes
"with" break if used with type objects
