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From: uda@majestix.liu.se (Ulf Dahlen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Loop Macro
Keywords: Loop-Macro
Message-ID: <1131@majestix.liu.se>
Date: 9 Jan 89 18:36:26 GMT
References: <4429@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <1458@umbc3.UMD.EDU> <23357@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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In article <23357@apple.Apple.COM> malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney) writes:
>Sorry for the delay in putting this out.  I've appended a common lisp 
>version of the MIT (Symbolics) Loop macro to this letter.  It is a bit
>long but it really works.  I've personally used this macro to port a very
>large signal procesing system from a Symbolics machine to common lisps from
>Lucid(Sun), Franz Inc, Coral (Macintosh), Xerox and DEC (VMS).  This hack
>deserves wider distribution.  See the headers for author information and 
>credits.

This loop macro looks very much the same as the iterative statement feature
in InterLISP. Anyway, as somebody else pointed out, it would be very nice
to have the documentation on-line. Surely there must exist a file somewhere.

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