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266 points awkravchuk | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 13:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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Guthur ◴[17 Oct 24 14:46 UTC] No.41870173[source]▶

The event loop is brilliant example for how much `loop` is a full blown iteration DSL... love it or hate it ;)

awkravchuk ◴[17 Oct 24 14:49 UTC] No.41870202[source]▶

I used to scoff at it at first, but after a few years of CL programming loop is one of my favourite CL constructs :)

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taeric ◴[17 Oct 24 15:04 UTC] No.41870359[source]▶

I'm with you there. Is a bit of a mind bend, as I really disliked it the first few times I saw it.

For an even sillier mind bend, I'm using tagbody to be able to directly transcribe some of Knuth's algorithms as I am learning them.

1. awkravchuk ◴[17 Oct 24 15:26 UTC] No.41870541[source]▶

Cool! Using tagbody feels like writing supercharged C or even assembler to me (not that I've used it much, but still).

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