Alexander Schmolck  <a.schmolck@gmx.net> wrote:
+---------------
| tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes:
| >   - that's a bad place for the declarations (what if I'm declaring VAR
| >     to be special?)
...
| And out of curiosity -- have you got an example when declaring an
| iteration variable special would be handy?
+---------------

Google for "Jensen's Device"...

[Yes, I know specials aren't "call-by-name" at all,
but you can do some of the same things with them.]

Or try this one:

    (loop for *print-base* from 2 to 36 do (print 1234567))


-Rob

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