Counting from zero
Alan Kay
alan.kay at squeakland.org
Tue May 2 13:09:42 UTC 2006
This would have been one of several such solutions in Smalltalk-72, but it
didn't need to use macros for syntax extension.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 12:15 AM 5/2/2006, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
>Duncan Mak wrote:
>>I was in a compiler class and was doing a project in Scheme. Like the style
>>prefered by Smalltalk, I strived to use only higher-order functions, like
>>map, instead of doing explicit iterations (Scheme makes that hard anyhow).
>>However, I ran into trouble when I had to iterate two collections together,
>>but each at a different offset, i..e matching a[i] to b[i + 2].
>
>I believe the loop macro is implemented in Scheme; it makes this kind of
>iterations very easy.
>
>loop for i in list-a
> for j in (cddr list-b)
> do (your-thing i j)
>
>and you're done
>
>
>Stef
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