Re: constant `e'

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:

> `natural-logarithm-base'
>
> `circle-circumference-diameter-ratio'
>
> `canonical-true-value'
>
> Seriously, though, I'd really like to see an `otherwise'
> constant (defined to `t', of course).  That would make
> catch-all clauses of `cond' look much better.

Disagree, that's an idiom.  Anyway, you can do

(cond ((eq x 'yellow) "yellow")
      ((eq x 'green) "green")
      ("other"))

and avoid the t altogether.  Not that it is prettier to my eyes.

> Please?

There is no point in Elisp diverging from Lisp without more compelling
reasons.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum