Pascal Costanza wrote: > Pillsy wrote: [...] > > 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. Indeed, I *don't* use it except for the simplest things. > There's an important lesson to learn here: Not all language constructs > are supposed to be loved by everyone. ;) Especially in Common Lisp, where it's possible to have replacements that integrate with the rest of the language as seamlessly as the original feature they're replacing. I don't love CL because its devoid of features I hate. I love it because it provides so many great ways of getting around the features I hate. If it didn't have features I hate, I might actually like it less, because I wouldn't have anything to bitch about on USENET. :) Cheers, Pillsy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
