Re: Decls in Loop - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: Decls in Loop
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/04/30
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3166093389825776@naggum.no>

* SRS <srs43@my-deja.com>
| Is it impossible to put declarations in Loop?

  no, but it has a different syntax than other declarations:

(loop :for x :of-type fixnum :from 1 :to 100 :do ...)

  note that "fixnum" is not a loop keyword, but the symbol naming the
  type.  see 6.1.1.7 [Loop] Destructuring in the standard.

#:Erik