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Re: What?

In article <bruce-E88BE7.10395213082002@copper.ipg.tsnz.net>,
 Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org> wrote:

> > The good thing is that each "expression" and "sub-expression"
> > has surrounding parentheses.
> 
> Well that's where you're wrong.
> 
> ":bar 4" is a sub-expression, but has no surrounding parentheses.
> ":accessor foo-slot" is a sub-expression, but has no surrounding 
> parentheses.
> "from 3 below 10" is a sub-expression, but has no surrounding 
> parentheses.

One needs to find a "practical" compromise when designing
these forms and their usage - in general it is quite
okay. For the "from 3 below 10", the ITERATE macro is more
in line with Lisp style and the LOOP macro feels a little
bit alien.