Re: Question about loop

(message (Hello 'Jeff)
(you :wrote :on '(Wed, 30 May 2007 22:45:37 -0700))
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JB> Does the Common Lisp spec say anything about whether the following is
JB> well defined given that the elements of "list" are unique:

JB> (loop for x in list
JB> when (p x)
JB> do (setq list (delete x list)))

i suspect it won't work right, but it's very confusing and very inefficient
anyway.

what's about one of this:

(delete-if #'p list)

(loop for x in lisp unless (p x) collect x)

(mapcan (lambda (x) (unless (p x) (list x))) list)

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