Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless

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Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless John Cowan (19 May 2011 21:42 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (20 May 2011 09:32 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Alex Queiroz (20 May 2011 09:38 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Alaric Snell-Pym (23 May 2011 10:36 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Eli Barzilay (23 May 2011 10:41 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Aaron W. Hsu (23 May 2011 22:50 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (24 May 2011 08:25 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Emmanuel Medernach (24 May 2011 08:37 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Alaric Snell-Pym (24 May 2011 09:06 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Aaron W. Hsu (24 May 2011 18:57 UTC)

Re: when and unless Arthur A. Gleckler (24 May 2011 19:35 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless leppie (24 May 2011 08:51 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (24 May 2011 09:06 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless leppie (24 May 2011 09:23 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless John Cowan (24 May 2011 14:51 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Pierpaolo Bernardi (24 May 2011 14:57 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Aaron W. Hsu (24 May 2011 18:56 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] when and unless Eli Barzilay 23 May 2011 10:41 UTC

Four minutes ago, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> On 05/20/11 10:31, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
>
> > Also, while and until macros encourage bad habits.  Do we want to
> > attract beginners by making them write fortran code in
> > parentheses?
>
> FWIW, I never use while and until... I just reach for the named let.
> It's general, so I only have to remember how it works once.

Named lets have another advantage -- they don't make side effects
necessary like while/until loops.

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          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
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