From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: LOOP discrepancy Date: 24 Aug 2002 05:17:09 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3239155029893398@naggum.no> References: <20020823173216.N334@meddle.res.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1030166230 4530 129.240.64.16 (24 Aug 2002 05:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2002 05:17:10 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:38658 * Matthew Danish | Does this mean that all stepping of variables should occur before any | termination-tests are performed--regardless of lexical position--or only | before termination-tests associated with the iteration-control clauses? My understanding is that termination tests should be performed as early as possible. Otherwise, if you loop over a vector and use either "for index from start below end" or some equivalent thereof, you would not want to access the endth element, not even in the finally clause. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.