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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: while break and continue
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:56:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isr0ti9j.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87isr30z9r.fsf@zagadka.ping.de

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:
>
> What usage are you worried about?

Only the sort of thing you can imagine.  Eg. with the current "while",

	(let ((not      1)
	      (sensible 2))
	  (while (< sensible 4)
	    (set sensible (+ sensible not))))

gives

	ERROR: Wrong type to apply: 1

> Yes, definitely.  That's what (ice-9 syncase) is for...

Yep.  I guess it's a bit big and ugly to drag into boot-9.scm though.


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      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-20 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-30  0:00 while break and continue Kevin Ryde
2003-06-01 23:58 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-05  1:42   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-06-18 22:56     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-21 23:28       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-07-27 14:48         ` Marius Vollmer
2003-07-29  0:23           ` Kevin Ryde
2003-08-13 21:49             ` Kevin Ryde
2003-08-13  9:27               ` Matthias Koeppe
2003-08-14 23:35                 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-08-15  1:43                 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-06-06 22:31   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-06-18 22:57     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-20 23:56       ` Kevin Ryde [this message]

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