Re: a noob question

From: Tayssir John Gabbour (tayss_temp2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 24 Jan 2005 18:47:42 -0800

Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
> . (let (blah 10
> . foo 20
> . bar 30)
> . (+ blah foo bar))
>
> I'm guessing the Ancients didn't think of it, or really liked tacitly
> initting stuff to nil. I recall Paul Graham complaining about this
once
> while talking about Arc. And if you think about it, setf actually is
> like this when you're setting multiple things at once.

Actually, one big strike is that Emacs doesn't easily indent the above
code properly by default. (I don't know how simple it is to teach it to
Emacs.) You see this as a justification in packages like Iterate, that
a more "Lispy" approach is nicer for Emacs indentation than (say) LOOP.
MfG,
Tayssir