On: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

[medo-bear]

> Common Lisp happens to be on the upper end of what loop allows – you can use it as a standard for loop pretty easily, but the interface gives you many other options.

If you really wanna get freaky try 'do. It is the heroin addicted cousin of 'loop

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_do_...

[shawn_w → medo-bear]

`do` is very straightforward and basic compared to the things that `loop` allows.

[medo-bear → shawn_w]

oh no. maybe you have in mind 'dolist or 'dotimes

'do is much more general and way more powerful. in some sense 'loop is the taming of 'do. see for example

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lcl50/loop/loop-7.ht...

[shawn_w → medo-bear]

No, I mean do. It's basically just a C style for loop except with a return value. Nothing special.

[medo-bear → shawn_w]

yes the syntax for 'do is simple, like that of lisp. however 'do allows you to make far more complex iteration constructs than 'loop. 'loop is just a DSL to make some of these constructs more concise. read up on it

[lispm → medo-bear]

LOOP has the DO functionality included.