Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Had they been taught the fact of "choice" in Scheme class, I'd gladly 
| allow them that choice.  But since they were taught dogma, it just pisses
| me off that they walk into a CL shop with a deathwish for perfectly 
| perspicuous iteration constructs like dotimes and dolist...
+---------------

Hee hee! Even when coding in Scheme, I use "dotimes" and "dolist" and
subsets of "destructuring-bind" and "multiple-value-bind" and lots of
other neat ideas borrowed from CL. But then, I write my Scheme macros
with "defmacro", too...  ;-}


-Rob (the "Common Scheme" heretic)

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