On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:18:50 -0800
Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an interesting point, though -- does "unless" communicate
> something slightly different to* "when not", despite being
> functionally identical? And is the distinction important enough to
> justify a move towards a confusing Rubyesque undergrowth of equivalent
> syntactic sugar?
No, no, a thousand times no! Having seen the results of both TMTOWTDI
and TOOWTDI, I vote for the latter, every time!
This is fundamentally a documentation issue. Yes, a few dozen "Clojure
for YXZZY programmers" help a little. But even better would be
enhancing find-doc so that you could find "obvious aliases" like
those. I.e. - (find-doc "unless") should turn up both if-not and
when-not.
> Probably not, although `unless` is really no different to `when`: they
> both eventually expand into `if` forms. I'm not entirely sure where
> the line should be drawn, or why I draw it where I do...
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