New function - makelist alternative: table()ing Lisp ECL 9.4.1



Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Richard Fateman
> <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>   
>> ...I once again suggest that the common lisp loop macro in all its glory be looked at as a source of inspiration.
>>     
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> Personally, I find the Common Lisp loop macro to be very ugly and
> un-Lisplike.  But I guess I'm Old School....
>   

Yes, it is very un-lisplike and I rarely use it in Lisp.  But it is very 
much Algol-like, which is the model for the Maxima user-level language.

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