if does not evaluate

[Jacek Generowicz]

moughanj at tcd.ie (James Moughan) writes:

> Now, how to do this in Lisp.  There are several functions for applying
> a function to the elements of a list to select them, though AFAIK none
> specifically for our purpose.  I may very well be wrong there
> o'course.  One way is:
> 
> (define has-element (cond list) 
>     (equal () (member-if #'cond list))))

(some #'cond list)

> We have to have a rather arbitrary #' funcall and syntax to stop a
> function evaluating long enough to shift it to where it's useful.

What on earth are you talking about ?