Subject: Re: lisp idiom for processing each line in a file?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:08:43 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <07WdnTVzSrGWgWHe4p2dnA@speakeasy.net>
Alexander Schmolck  <a.schmolck@gmail.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > e.g., using CL's builtin LOOP/DOTIMES/DOLIST/DO macros over
| > Scheme-style tail-recursive loops.
| 
| Not that I would generally recommend using tail calls over LOOP et al
| (OK, I'll make an exception for DO) -- but is there really any
| significant common lisp implementation that can't optimize self-tail
| calls (I thought even clisp would)?
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Even in the presence of special-variable bindings and/or UNWIND-PROTECTs?


-Rob

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