Re: strange behaviour in loop

If you byte compile it you get an error message because it uses the
macro definition of loop.  It might make sense to drop the internal
version and just use the macro--might be worth some timings so be
sure.

luke

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:58:38PM +0200, Frederic Udina wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I observed that loop has a strange behaviour:
> 
> > (setq ii 0)
> 0
> > (loop foo foo  (incf ii) foo (when (> ii 10000) (return)))
> NIL
> 
> doesnt give any error despite foo isn't bound to anything
> 
> > foo
> Error: The variable FOO is unbound.
> 
> Why is that? Is it a bug or is something I do not know about loop?
> 
> 
> 
>  Frederic Udina
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