Try/Cond

[Luke Gorrie]

Luke Gorrie <luke@REDACTED> writes:

> "Richard Carlsson" <richardc@REDACTED> writes:
> 
> > The current status is that it turned out that Erlang's scoping rules
> > made it harder than we had expected to implement "cond" correctly
> > (i.e., it's not just a trivial expansion into a nested case
> > statement), so it was postponed until someone with a lot of spare time
> > could have another look at it.
> 
> Just add `let' too.

Hmm, but Core Erlang already has `let'. Is the problem that you can't
express cond in Core Erlang, or that you have to do something hard
with it before it gets to Core? Or something else?

-Luke