[Gardeners] Potting Soil -- Lists and The Lisp Point of View

[Reno Functional Language Users Group]

> Here, "where to put the parentheses" pretty much leaps out at you.
> This doesn't do the same thing as COND, though, since if choice1 is T
> and code1c is NIL, the OR will go on to try choice2, whereas the COND
> will return the NIL, so don't do this.  :)

the only way I was able to really deal with COND was to stop using it
and start using IF*

> So anyway, hope this provides some fertilizer (hopefully not in the
> "this is crap!" sense :) for Lisp Gardeners.

Larry, are you posting these articles anywhere besides the gardeners
list? It might be nice to have a collection of links to them somewhere
like cl-user.net or the cliki to help newbies start thinking about
things like meta-linguistic abstraction

Nick

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