Tayssir John Gabbour <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com> wrote:
+---------------
| At least as far as the standard goes, Loop's limits are glaring
| (because Loop doesn't normally seem limited); like how you can't
| mix up things like FOR and DO/COLLECT clauses.
+---------------

Hunh? I do stuff like that all the time, e.g.:

    > (loop for i below 6
	    finally (return (reverse (pairlis list list2)))
	do (format t "~d" i)
	collect i into list
	do (format t "^2 = ~2d~%" (* i i))
	collect (* i i) into list2)
    0^2 =  0
    1^2 =  1
    2^2 =  4
    3^2 =  9
    4^2 = 16
    5^2 = 25
    ((0 . 0) (1 . 1) (2 . 4) (3 . 9) (4 . 16) (5 . 25))
    > 

Or are you talking about all the FORs having to come before
all the DO/COLLECT/SUM/etc.? Well, C's no better in that regard...


-Rob

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