On 21 Feb., 18:24, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently the dotimes macro requires its first argument to be a vector > for binding a variable to the number of times the body should be > executed. Inside the body, that variable is bound to the values from 0 > to that number minus 1. How about changing this macro to also accept > an integer as the first argument instead of a binding vector for cases > where the number isn't needed in the body.
I don’t find this very interesting. There several variants of how dotimes could be, but the one that we currently have is the one that is used since a few decades in Lisp, and it is the one that makes very much sense. > For example, > > (print "Santa says") > (dotimes 3 (print "Ho")) > (.flush *out*) (print "Santa saysHoHoHo") How often do you really want to repeat the same side effect many times in a row? Why does it hurt to just say (dotimes [i 100] ...)? This will not reduce readability dramatically, but is a consistant use of dotimes. It also does not reduce productivity. Why make a breaking change for this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
