David Trudgett  <dtrudgett@yahoo.com> wrote:
+---------------
| But in CL we don't use recursive procedure definitions to do
| iteration. We use iterative constructs instead:
|     (LOOP FOR ITEM IN '(SOME SORT OF LIST) COLLECT ITEM) 
|     => (SOME SORT OF LIST)
| Of course, this solution doesn't look nearly as impressive and also
| neglects to reverse the order of the items in the list...
+---------------

And even if one were resisting LOOP for sme odd reason,
there are still plenty of other ways to do it in CL, e.g.:

    > (let (accum)
	(dolist (i '(some sort of list) accum)
	  (push i accum)))

    (LIST OF SORT SOME)
    > 

Of course, for that *particular* semantics you'd be better
of with simply:

    > (reverse '(some sort of list))

    (LIST OF SORT SOME)
    > 


-Rob

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