Re: How's that again?

[Joanna Bryson <jomail@ai.mit.edu>]

> Some stylistic remarks are in order.

Er, isn't it quite likely he posted a deliberately simple example?
Thanks for exposing "ignorable" -- I'd never heard of it.

> 
> Unless you intend to reference x in the body of the dolist form, you
> should use dotimes or loop.
> 
> (defun foo (list)
>   (loop for i from 1 to (length list)
>         do (print "Hi")))
> 
> Also, please choose variable names that mean something. For example,
> use "list"  instead of "l" and "el" (or "element") instead of "x".