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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: vsync <vs...@quadium.net>
Date: 2000/07/04
Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
gj...@g.local (Gareth McCaughan) writes: I detest LOOP. The whole point of Lisp IMO is the parens and the > Some Lispers detest LOOP. I'm glad it's there, because it's > a great tool for expressing simple iterations simply. (Most > iterations are simple. Hairy ones are tricky to understand > whatever language you express them in.) prefix notation. Why screw that up with some weird English-like thingie that just looks _wrong_? As to simple and complex iterations, I don't find using MAPCAR or DOLIST or just plain DO to be hard to understand. I just spend 5 minutes reading the manual _before_ I try something for the first time. > Note that the Lisp versions also isolate the binding of the Java (and C++ IIRC) let you do this: > loop variable to within the loop, which is usually what you > want. Doing that in C requires more braces and an extra > declaration. for (int i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) i is only within the scope of that loop. -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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