Re: Iteration Status

[shebs%utah-orion@utah-cs.arpa (Stanley T. Shebs)]

Moon and others didn't like PSL FOR because of the fixed order of processing.
In practice, it's only occasionally a pain.  Some people (Fahlman especially)
hated the pseudo-English LOOP syntax.  I'm not a fan either, but there's not
enough "precedent" set by other CL constructs to constrain the choices.
HP's proposal for LOOP is a sort of amalgamation of FOR and LOOP and more
parenthesized.  Perhaps if lots of people get a chance to play with a
portable version, they'll get enthused about making it a standard; right
now it's still not well publicized outside HP.

I used to think DO was unreadable until I had to understand the hundreds
of them used in MRS sources.  Now they're merely obscure :-)

								stan