> Your code doesn't seem like a very good idea Why not? I usually use an 'anaphoric if' macro that binds - to the given value. It seems more clearly 'special

> Your code doesn't seem like a very good idea Why not? I usually use an 'anaphoric if' macro that binds - to the given value. It seems more clearly 'special' than a name like 'it'—which seems like the canonical name—closer to the perl/raku $_.