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GRINDEF and old-style DO
- To: Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
- Subject: GRINDEF and old-style DO
- From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 80 02:02:00 GMT
- Cc: KMP at MIT-MC, BUG-GRINDEF at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 29 September 1980 22:02-EDT
Date: 29 September 1980 1115-EDT (Monday)
From: Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
Recall that one can always convert old-style DO to new-style
simply by inserting six parentheses:
(DO X INIT STEP TEST BODY) => (DO ((X INIT STEP)) (TEST) BODY)
SO a quick way out is just to grind every old-style DO as a new-style
one, by this conversion (this amounts to an implicit declaration of war
against old-style DO as being obsolete).
I'm not sure I really advocate this -- just pointing out the possibility.
barf