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Do you like the LOOP macro?

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-23 13:13

The LOOP macro is one of the few contributions of Interlisp to Common Lisp. I personally really like it. A very nice declarative language for sequential iteration.

I think Iterate is nicer (for example, to find something), but I am using LOOP for now because I want to master it before I move onto Iterate.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-23 13:38

It's okay I guess

I'm really a lot more interested in olin shivers loop macro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzNwWmQdb0

but the source is not available (and he ignored my email about it)

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-23 13:52

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-23 14:00

>>3
Guy missed the point entirely. No where do I see him talking about DWIM or ideas on the level of programmer's assistant. LOOP is in the tradition of Teitelman and man machine symbiosis, not in the petty minutae of career technicians.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-23 14:30

They stole (sorry, ``borrowed'') it from JavaScript, the world's finest functional language.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-23 22:29

>>3
That reads like a horror story.

Just use call-with-exit, and you get to keep your sanity:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html#callwithexit1

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-24 7:40

>>4
Did you just use "guy" to refer to a random person while talking about Lisp? That's fucked up.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-24 13:48

>>7
unscientific and ultimately destructive

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