Matthew D Swank  <akopa-is-very-much-like-my-mail-address@c.net> wrote:
+---------------
| I really loathed 'do' until I realized it looked like a "'let' in motion".
| Though, it looks so much like functional code, I would sometimes forget
| that each iteration does not generate a fresh set of bindings for the
| loop variables.
+---------------

This is one of the "gotchas" I occasionally bumped into while I was
in the process of moving over from Scheme to CL several years ago.
The Scheme spec requires that each iteration generate a fresh set
of bindings for the variables, while the CLHS requires that the
variables be bound but once and then subsequently assigned-to
["in parallel, as if by PSETQ" for DO, and "sequentially, as if
by SETQ" for DO*].


-Rob

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