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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Decls in Loop
Date: 2000/04/30
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* 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