emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Why is there no `until' in elisp?


From: Elias Mårtenson
Subject: Re: Why is there no `until' in elisp?
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:41:26 +0800

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, 16:06 Yuri Khan, <address@hidden> wrote:

In both these implementations, ‘until’ is still a pre-condition loop
(same as ‘while’, but with the condition negated).

However, in many languages that have an ‘until’ loop as a language
construct, it is a post-condition loop. The body is executed first,
then the condition is evaluated.

Elisp already has the loop macro from CL which implements all of this, and more. I honestly don't understand what this discussion is all about. 

Since the desired functionality is already available, why try to define a new API that won't do as much? 

Regards, 
Elias 

reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]