Announcement Loop Facility Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Aug 2022 08:31 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Lassi Kortela (16 Aug 2022 09:03 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Vladimir Nikishkin (16 Aug 2022 09:24 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Aug 2022 09:43 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Aug 2022 10:01 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Ricardo G. Herdt (16 Aug 2022 10:04 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Lassi Kortela (16 Aug 2022 10:17 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Ricardo G. Herdt (16 Aug 2022 10:22 UTC)
Re: Announcement Loop Facility Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Aug 2022 10:39 UTC)
Name of the loop macro Lassi Kortela (16 Aug 2022 10:55 UTC)
Re: Name of the loop macro John Cowan (16 Aug 2022 11:03 UTC)
Re: Name of the loop macro Jakub T. Jankiewicz (16 Aug 2022 11:18 UTC)
Re: Name of the loop macro Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Aug 2022 11:25 UTC)
Changing the binding of quote et.al. Lassi Kortela (16 Aug 2022 11:46 UTC)
Re: Name of the loop macro John Cowan (16 Aug 2022 11:57 UTC)
Re: Name of the loop macro Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Aug 2022 12:33 UTC)
Re: Name of the loop macro Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Aug 2022 11:16 UTC)

Name of the loop macro Lassi Kortela 16 Aug 2022 10:55 UTC

> Yes, I plan to name the macro "loop".

Perhaps "loop*" would be a decent alternative? By analogy to let*.

> At least in R[67]RS, it won't
> clash with locally defined variables named "loop". Thanks to the
> rename facility of the R[67]RS module system, it can also peacefully
> coexist with other loop facilities named "loop" as well.

Indeed. It's one of the best features of Scheme that it doesn't have any
reserved words. Scheme is the only language I know where the module
system isn't painful to use.