Re: A style question

job-271842874@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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."

I don't agree. You can learn the basics by reading loop examples. Once you
know how each loop word works, all you need is the BNF, if you forgot
something. The more you use it, the more you learn the grammar and the
easier it is to use it. Like all good DSLs, it helps a lot to write short
and easy to understand code for the task for which it is designed:
iterating.

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