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From: raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.arpa (Eric A. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Loop Macro (now ZMACS formatting)
Keywords: Loop-Macro
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Date: 6 Jan 89 01:40:23 GMT
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Having the LOOP macro will help you port your code, but I dread
developing code using this macro on a machine whose editor wouldn't
format it for automatically.  Its really nice that ZMACS makes up for
the lack of (LISP-like) structure in the macro.

Hell, I gave up using my reader macros which turned {} into a progn, and
[] into () (which is useful for marking different levels of paren
nesting - i.e. in DO, LET) because ZMACS wouldn't format my code
correctly.  Guess I'm just lazy: a) relying on an editor to do formatting
                                 b) no wanting to make my own indentor

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Name: Eric A. Raymond
ARPA: raymond@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov
SLOW: NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-17, Moffett Field, CA 94035

Nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-)