Try/Cond

[Robert Virding]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Gorrie" <luke@REDACTED>
To: "Richard Carlsson" <richardc@REDACTED>
Cc: "Sean Hinde" <sean.hinde@REDACTED>; <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Try/Cond


> "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.

I wish we had and I wish we would. It would remove an aweful lot of scoping problems, not just in cond.

Robert