Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question

[tomas]

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 08:59:25AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Emanuel Berg writes:
>  >  (1+ data) vs. (+ 1 data)
> 
> I miss the original discussion, my apologies.
> 
> In C, increment and decrement operators are meant to use hw processor
> instructions.
> 
> Is it the same for the LISP 1+ function?

That depends on the compiler. OTOH -- for a decent modern compiler, the
code generator would see the same, whether you type (+ 1 foo) or (1+ foo).

The optimizer is solving much harder problems than that. This holds true
for C as it holds for Lisp or Scheme or whatnot.

Regards
- -- tomás
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