Thanks everyone for the response! As a Lisp newbie i may sound naive but: 1) Why is cond and condp syntax inconsistent (necessity of :else)?
2) On page 1 of introduction to Lisp I read "(+ 1 2) but also (+ 1 2 3)". Wow prefix notation is cool. But imagine for a moment that in an new exciting language you can write (* 1 2) but not (* 1 2 3)! You must use (cond* 1 2 3 4) and what is worse (cond* 1 2 3 4 :else 5)! Moreover since :else is necessary in cond why not (if a b :else c)?! That looks sooo bad. 3) That Arc syntax is not colliding with current well known cond and if (maybe except of the possibility of catching some arity exceptions). Who is used to them might still use traditional syntax and new players might prefer Arc's (and I believe they would). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
