<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sorry to be so confused, but what is the function signature for if-bind?<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 14, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Attila Lendvai wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 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 <BR>> decided...<BR>><BR>> i'm planning to drop the anaphoric stuff from arnesi and depend on anaphora.<BR><BR>Not sure. They aren't really anaphoric, are they. OTOH, I don't really see the<BR>harm beyond "intellectual purity". </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>that's a good point, but we can have several pro reasons like:<BR> - too many small libs waste effort put into maintenance<BR> - too few libs are not easily combined<BR> - or the mere usefullness of these macros. <BR><BR>the ones i miss at a first glance:<BR>- when-bind, if-bind<BR> - if2-bind, when2-bind (for gethash and friends)<BR></DIV></DIV><BR>-- <BR>- attila<BR><BR>"- The truth is that I've been too considerate, and so became unintentionally cruel... <BR> - I understand.<BR> - No, you don't understand! We don't speak the same language!"<BR>(Ingmar Bergman - Smultronstället)<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">anaphora-devel site list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:anaphora-devel@common-lisp.net">anaphora-devel@common-lisp.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/anaphora-devel">http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/anaphora-devel</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Gary Warren King, metabang.com </DIV><DIV>Cell: (413) 885 9127</DIV><DIV>Fax: (206) 338-4052</DIV></SPAN><DIV>gwkkwg on Skype * garethsan on AIM</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>