Subject: Re: Windows PCL Lispbox now available
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:55:00 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <eJudnXLnUO7ppY3eRVn-3g@speakeasy.net>
Timofei Shatrov <grue@mail.ru> wrote the following to disable some code:
+---------------
| #+(or) (let (...) ...)
+---------------

May I strongly recommend that everyone always use #-(AND) instead of
#+(OR), and conversely use #+(AND) instead of #-(OR)?  Yes, AND is
one character longer to type than OR, but with the AND flavor the sense
of the +/- "goes the right way": plus = on/enable, minus = off/disable.
Much less likely to cause mistakes.

Just a suggestion...


-Rob

p.s. IIRC, I first heard this recommendation & rationale from Erik Naggum.

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