10 minutes ago, Carl Eastlund wrote:
>
> Is this about conditionals or lookups?
Conditionals.
> You started with (cdr (assq x alist)), and I don't see the
> conditional in that.
You didn't read far enough.
9 minutes ago, Neil Toronto wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >
> > The above is "an example", substitute appropriately.
>
> Do you have other examples in mind? Truthiness values are a
> substitute Maybe monad, so we could potentially find it anywhere
> Haskell types use Maybe.
That would be what I'd do to find more examples easily. (Except that
I'd go to Ocaml or ML.)
> Truthiness values require nonlocal changes to deal with the None
> (#f) case, just like the Maybe monad does. Sounds like a good reason
> to avoid them,
And this conclusion is something I can't make any sense of, so I
declare this my stop and gett off this train.
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