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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: "Next-iteration" clause in Loop macro?
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 07:53:00 GMT
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- In article <16eujtINNhma@agate.berkeley.edu> konstan@cs.berkeley.edu (Joe Konstan) writes:
- >Is there a clause or macro within loop to cause execution to continue
- >at the next iteration?
-
- I don't think so. There's a macro to terminate the entire loop,
- LOOP-FINISH.
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- > If not, is adding a label at the start of the
- >loop-body and "go"ing there guaranteed to work--or might that not properly
- >execute the loop stepping code (which would mean that I need to instead
- >go to the bottom of the loop).
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- It's not going to work at all, since you can't put GO tags in loop bodies.
- Symbols are treated as LOOP keywords, not tags.
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