Re: The FIXME in `dotimes'

[Mattias Engdegård]

7 sep. 2022 kl. 15.37 skrev Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>:

>   (dotimes (count) ...)

Lisp syntax rarely make the first element optional, and in this case it's both 
the first and the last one:

  (dotimes ([VAR] COUNT [RESULT]) BODY...)

which is a bit alien, and it's perhaps not worth the trouble for just omitting 
an underscore?

>   (dotimes count ...)

That wouldn't allow for arbitrary expressions so it's of limited utility (and 
Lisp-alien, again). There's also the risk that someone will eventually replace 
a variable by a function call, turning (dotimes x ...) into (dotimes (f x) ...).