Re: troll's food (python vs lisp)

From: Rob Warnock (rpw3_at_rpw3.org)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:35:23 -0500

Robert Strandh <strandh@labri.fr> wrote:
+---------------
| Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com> writes:
| > What's wrong with just saying (the fixnum (1+ x)) ? That doesn't
| > seem like very much convincing to me...
|
| I do not know how to do that in loop.
+---------------

CMUCL seems to generate fairly good code for either of these:

    (loop for i fixnum from 0 below 1000
      do (foo i))

    (loop for i fixnum = 0 then (the fixnum (1+ i))
          while (< i 1000)
      do (foo i))

-Rob

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