William James
7/30/2015 7:36:00 PM
Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
> How about loop for greater clarity than either do or Python?
>
> (loop
> for a = 1 then b
> and b = 1 then (+ a b)
> do (print a))
>
> Which neatly demonstrates the power of macros as well. If there's a
In CL (COBOL-Like), in order to print an endless sequence of fibonacci
numbers one has to use a macro whose source code is over 60 kilobytes
in size.
In Scheme, he can simply use recursion.
(let fib ((a 1) (b 1))
(print a)
(fib b (+ a b)))
Since CL (COBOL-Like) is not a Lispy language, it does not have
much support for recursion.
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