From: Erik Naggum
Subject: Re: COND as macro? (was Re: Q: where to find code for COND, LET, DO, etc.)
Date:
Message-ID: <19950727T201504Z@naggum.no>
[Simon Brooke]
| I am interested and surprised. I always think of IF as a macro which
| expands to COND -- COND being after all one of the dozen or so most
| fundamental bits of LisP. It would be mildly interesting to know which
| implementations of CL treat COND as primitive, and which IF.
Common Lisp must differ from that mythical "LisP", because `if' is a
special form/operator in Common Lisp, and `cond' is a macro. see CLtL2,
p. 156ff.
#<Erik 3015864904>
--
NETSCAPISM /net-'sca-,pi-z*m/ n (1995): habitual diversion of the mind to
purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from the
realization that the Internet was built by and for someone else.