Personally, I would intuitively assume that none of the bindings from if-let would be available in the else branch.
On 16 May 2012 14:36, Moritz Ulrich <ulrich.mor...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Aaron Cohen <aa...@assonance.org> wrote: > > What should happen on the else branch of the if-let; which bindings are > in > > scope and what would be their values? > > This is kind of tricky. My opinion tends to "all bindings", but then > it's difficult to handle lazy evaluation like in (or > (cheap-computation) (long-computation)). > One solution for this would be evaluating all arguments 'til the first > fails, then nil-ing the rest. The problem with this is, that it throws > away values which could be useful. > > -- > Moritz Ulrich > > -- > 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 > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > 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 > -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
