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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Terminology and style (was Re: Question about INTERN)
Message-ID: <4150@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Feb 91 12:56:50 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.181140.25730@csc.ti.com>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <1991Feb14.181140.25730@csc.ti.com> Lusky@vdle21 (Steve Lusky) writes:
>>But some people claim that COND is not used except in "old fashioned"
>>code.  The suggestion seems to be to use nested IFs instead.  Even
>>though COND is just about the hardest thing in Lisp to read, I don't
>>think nested IFs are always a good alternative.  On the other hand,
>>if established practractice really is moving away from COND, I'd like
>>to know that.  Contrariwise, if the textbooks that claim COND is
>>obsolete are wrong, I'd like to know _that_.

>What is the reason for saying that COND is obsolete?

Maybe I should look up one of those claims that I say some people
make.  I think all they're saying is that modern (so to speak) Lisp
programmers have moved away from it.  I don't agree with then, though.