[anaphora-devel] when-bind if-bind (and friends?)

[Gary King]

Sorry to be so confused, but what is the function signature for if-bind?

On Oct 14, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Attila Lendvai wrote:

> > any objections against adding when-bind and if-bind to anaphora?  
> if approved i'll send a patch, but i don't want to waste my time  
> against something already
> > decided...
> >
> > i'm planning to drop the anaphoric stuff from arnesi and depend  
> on anaphora.
>
> Not sure. They aren't really anaphoric, are they. OTOH, I don't  
> really see the
> harm beyond "intellectual purity".
>
> that's a good point, but we can have several pro reasons like:
>  - too many small libs waste effort put into maintenance
>  - too few libs are not easily combined
>  - or the mere usefullness of these macros.
>
> the ones i miss at a first glance:
> - when-bind, if-bind
> - if2-bind, when2-bind (for gethash and friends)
>
> -- 
> - attila
>
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