Re: Break Statements similar to C or C++

On May 30, 10:06 pm, "gokul.m...@xxxxxxxxx" <gokul.m...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Can we use the return macro for exiting from the while loops also??

There's no built-in while loop in cl, but you can build one with
macro.

Here's an example with the loop macro

CL > (loop for i from 1
while (< i 10)
if (= i 5) do (return)
else do (princ i))

1234
NIL

.

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