Nope. The first Lotus macro/formula language version that allowed loops was in Notes and Domino 6. Before that, you needed to use Lotusscript (a dialect of Basic similar to Visual Basic for Applications) or a C API to loop, and that came along with Windows versions and OLE.
Lotus 1-2-3 had for loops from the beginning, version one even, far before notes, domino, lotusscript, Windows or OLE/DDE existed. Here is a manual for version two, page 126 describes the {for} loop.
This wasn’t some hidden feature, lotus macro language was essential to its success from the beginning and was widely used for automating batch processing.
