Re: A style question


On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:02:46 -0500, job-271842874@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
|...
| 1) In "ANSI Common Lisp", Graham makes the following comments:
| "The loop macro was originally designed to help inexperienced Lisp
| users write iterative code...Unfortunately, loop is more like English
| than its designers ever intended...to understand it in the abstract is
| almost impossible...For such reasons, the use of loop cannot be
| recommended."

| Is this a minority view? One of the things that attracted me to Lisp
| was the simplicity, consistency, etc. of the language, so when I read
| the above, it seemed reasonable.

Gain experience with Common Lisp; in particular, learn (in alphabetical
order) DO, DOLIST, DOTIMES, and LOOP. Use them and see how others have
used them. Then form your own opinion.


| ...
| 4) Curious about the history of "terpri" - I guess it's shorter than
| "newline" but not very intuitive :)

Interesting---I was checking how googlable that was, and it turns out
there is even http://terpri.org/ (q.v.).

---Vassil.

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