Re: anaphora in emacs-lisp?

[Richard Stallman]

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    > If we have these, we should also have 'unless-it' and 'case-it'.

    unless-it seems fabulously pointless: `it' would always be nil.

We seem to envision two different calling conventions.
I envisioned

   (unless-it (+ x y) (> it 5)
     ...)

but I suppose you envision that 'it' is bound to the object
whose value is tested.

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