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Re: code review request for saveplace with dired buffer


From: Karl Fogel
Subject: Re: code review request for saveplace with dired buffer
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:20:37 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
>A Common Lisp convention is to use `when' and `unless' when the return
>value is not important.  It communicates to a (human) reader that the
>body is for side effects only.
>
>I, for one, use this same convention with Emacs Lisp.  I consider code
>that depends on the return value of `when' or `unless' to be bad style
>(misleading).  Some will disagree, no doubt.

Thanks -- that's a nice guideline, and I'll try to remember it too.



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