Pascal Costanza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can start with loop by using only the simple and straightforward > constructs, and slowly move towards the more complicated cases when > necessary. The nice thing about loop is that with some practice, you > can write code that more or less reads like English.
Yeah, but I'd also get English-like imprecision. Anyway, If I wanted to write code that reads like English, I'd write in Cobol. > All Common Lisp implementations that I am aware of provide ways to > enable TCO, so it's definitely possible to program in a functional > style if you want to. It's just that the ANSI Common Lisp > specification doesn't guarantee this, Yes; I'd rather go by what the standard says than rely on implementation-dependent hacks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list