From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The FIXME in `dotimes'
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:19:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7vrnu65.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F6C02DB-55F2-4AA2-8706-4BF38449AEAF@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Wed, 7 Sep 2022 16:08:27 +0200")
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) ...).
I agree, the idea was not well thought out and not worth the
complication.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-07 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-07 10:22 The FIXME in `dotimes' Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-07 12:13 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-09-07 13:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-07 13:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-07 14:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-09-07 14:19 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-09-07 14:29 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-07 15:18 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-09-07 15:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
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