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Re: Thousands of iteration macros
- To: GLS at MIT-AI
- Subject: Re: Thousands of iteration macros
- From: MOON@MIT-MC
- Date: Fri ,21 Jun 80 12:46:20 EDT
CC: (BUG LISPM) at MIT-MC
I don't think these are really a good idea. The names you propose are
not expressive of the function performed, the macros don't don't do anything
substantially better than what you can do already, and if you try to
put in all the possible cross combinations it will quickly become apparent
that you are much better off with a syntactic approach more like LOOP
(LIBLSP;LOOP) where you don't try to pack the entire program into a single
quasi-German word.