Re: Code for cond* - cond*-match, cond*-subpat and backtrack-aliases

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I wonder why (bind*) evaluates only its first value to determine
  > if the binding condition is true?  We already have macros which
  > evaluate the "truth of a set of bindings": the members of the
  > if-let family.  And they

  > "Evaluate each binding in turn, as in ‘let*’, stopping if a
  > binding value is nil.  If all are non-nil return the [final]
  > value."

That does not seem natural to me at all.  I don't see that it is
better.

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