From: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: globally replace non-branching "(if (not ..." with
	"(unless ..."
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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:14:57 +0100
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:23:55 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:33:06 +0100, Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org> wrote:
> > Less code, same results, without sacrificing readability.
> 
> +1, but why not replace non-branching `if' with `when' as well?

I was planning to do that when the `unless' patch was accepted,
but after reading Xavier and Tomi's replies, I've changed my mind.

Looking at "subr.el", it's actually more efficient to use `if'
(implemented in C) instead of `when' (a macro, which essentially
runs "if conf (progn ...)".

The amount of non-branching "(if COND (progn ..."  statements is very
limited though, so if inclined to "fix" them nonetheless, a patch
follows (relative to the previous one!).


Peace

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Pieter