[alexandria-devel] switch

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On 7/31/07, Attila Lendvai <attila.lendvai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > (switch ("xxx" :test #'string=)
> > >   ("alma" 1)
> > >   ("korte" 2)
> > >   (otherwise 42))
> >
> > Looks much better than the :default argument, IMHO. Could it also
> > accept T as a synonym for OTHERWISE?
>
> hm, i was thinking why :default was born and i thought that because
> specially handling T is somehow confusing or makes some situations
> impossible to handle. but after giving a few more thoughts i think T
> could also be used just like with COND and CASE.

T and OTHERWISE are both fine with me, I think.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus