[anaphora-devel] Forwarded message

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:

> The link to common-idioms on the documentation page
> <http://www.common-lisp.net/project/anaphora/anaphora.html> is missing
> "http://", so it doesn't work.

Fixed, thanks.

> BTW, is there some clever use for the symbol-macro versions?  The let
> versions allow compact expression of calculating IT just once, but the
> motivation for the symbol-macro versions is not obvious to me.

Partly they are "cleverness looking for a use", and partly they can be
used for stuff like:

 (sunless (gethash hash x)
    (setf it default))

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus