Subject: Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural language Minim
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:16:36 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.functional
Message-ID: <Ld2dnVyIx4N5mlnbnZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Rayiner Hashem  <rayiner@gmail.com> wrote:
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| The basic while-loop is like 0.1% of the power of a good looping
| construct. Things get interesting when you're iterating over multiple
| data structures, advancing the iteration irregularly in each one, all
| while trying to avoid consing too much in an inner loop.
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Exactly what I was trying to illustrate in my "WIRLEX" example
a little while back [in the "Java discovers map" thread]...


-Rob

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