Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless

[Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>]

On 05/20/11 10:31, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:

> Also, while and until macros encourage bad habits.  Do we want to
> attract beginners by making them write fortran code in parentheses?

FWIW, I never use while and until... I just reach for the named let.
It's general, so I only have to remember how it works once.

I feel I ought to learn myself "when", though, to disambiguate those
one-armed ifs in imperative code... That's a change worth making IMHO.

>
> P.
>

ABS

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