Subject: Re: (; comment suggestion)
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:49:58 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <VcmdndpEUYJ7XUXcRVn-vQ@speakeasy.net>
Pascal Bourguignon  <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Ed Symanzik <zik@msu.edu> writes:
| > (+ 1 2 #!(* 2 4))
| > => 3
| > Fairly convenient for commenting out a form.
| 
| Fairly silly. why not merely: (+ 1 2 #+(or)(* 2 4)) ?
+---------------

Personally, I find #+(or) for "off" to be very confusing. I much prefer
a consistent use of #-(and) to turn something off [and likewise #+(and)
to enable], since to my way of thinking the "-" corresponds much more
naturally to "off" [and "+" to "on"].


-Rob

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