Another handy dandy conditional

[Jeremy Dunn]

Here is a conditional form that I find very useful

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(define (<=> x y body1 body2 body3)
  (if (list? x)(setq x (length x)))
  (if (list? y)(setq y (length y)))
  (eval (if (< x y) body1
            (= x y) body2
            body3
        )))

This is a conditional with three bodies. X and Y can either be a list or a number. If X or Y is a list then the length of the list is used for comparison. The conditional looks at the two numbers X and Y. If X<Y body1 is executed elseif X=Y body2 is executed else body3 is executed. This happens a lot and I wish I would have thought of this a long time ago.

[Cyril]

This is a conditional with three bodies.

It is only me who remembers FORTRAN 66 and arithmetic IF? ;-)