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Proficiency with loop may make iterate unnecessary

Friday, July 8, 2005

Like many Lispers, I don't use the Common Lisp loop iteration macro often, and mostly in simple cases. In my case, this is not because loop is "less Lispy", but for its complexity. Also like many, I considered using the iterate macro by Jonathan Amsterdam.

But Chapter 22 "LOOP for Black Belts" of Peter Seibel's book Practical Common Lisp explains loop so well, that I feel much less need for iterate, at least in most cases, where extensibility is not required.