Re: cl-dolist, dolist, cl-return,

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
writes:

> (loop for item in list until (some-condition-p
> item))

These loops are brilliant! Only there are so many,
which overlap... Perhaps one could draw a
"periodic table" of Lisp loops. I remember something
like that from the book "Land of Lisp", but I read
that at the library so I can't check.
Good book, anyway.

    @book{land-of-lisp,
      title      = {Land of Lisp},
      author     = {Conrad Barski},
      publisher  = {No Starch},
      year       = 2010,
      ISBN       = 1593272812
    }

In C there are what I remember only three loops (if
you don't count recursion, or gotos for that matter) -
the familiar for, while, and 'do while'. It is
possible to construct all (?) loops with these, but
I like the Lisp way more where it can be expressed in
syntax, not merely constructed in code.

The loop finally turned up like this:

    (cl-loop for b in (erc-buffer-list)
             when (neq b (current-buffer)) do ...

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