Pillsy wrote: > 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.
If you hate LOOP then you don't have to use it. There's an important lesson to learn here: Not all language constructs are supposed to be loved by everyone. ;) Pascal -- My website: http://p-cos.net Common Lisp Document Repository: http://cdr.eurolisp.org Closer to MOP & ContextL: http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
