Re: The FIXME in `dotimes'

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:19:46 +0000, Philip Kaludercic 
>>>>> <philipk@posteo.net> said:

    Philip> Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
    >> 7 sep. 2022 kl. 15.37 skrev Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>:
    >> 
    >>> (dotimes (count) ...)
    >> 
    >> Lisp syntax rarely make the first element optional, and in this case
    >> it's both the first and the last one:
    >> 
    >> (dotimes ([VAR] COUNT [RESULT]) BODY...)
    >> 
    >> which is a bit alien, and it's perhaps not worth the trouble for just
    >> omitting an underscore?
    >> 
    >>> (dotimes count ...)
    >> 
    >> That wouldn't allow for arbitrary expressions so it's of limited
    >> utility (and Lisp-alien, again). There's also the risk that someone
    >> will eventually replace a variable by a function call, turning
    >> (dotimes x ...) into (dotimes (f x) ...).

    Philip> I agree, the idea was not well thought out and not worth the
    Philip> complication.

Surely the goal here should be to borrow a name from other languages,
but have the result behave differently?

(defmacro range (count &rest body)

😜

Robert
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