Ken Tilton wrote: [...] > That was my stance for about seven years of intense Lisp. Then the > author of Practical Common Lisp did a nice job of breaking the whole > mess up into sensible chunks and I picked it up. If one programs Lisp, > one should learn Loop -- it is definitely worth the bother. I def regret > not learning it sooner.
When I first read PCL (which was my introduction to Lisp) I thought LOOP was really neato. Once I actually started using it for things that weren't so simple, I began to really hate it. I think that having a specialized mini-language for iteration is a superb idea, but I don't think LOOP is it. That being said, there's a portable alternatives out there that I like way better, and I still use LOOP for dashing stuff off one-liners at the REPL. Cheers, Pillsy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
