[iterate-devel] Fwd: if-first-iteration, a little better version as an arch patch

[Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril]

Attila Lendvai wrote:

[writing Iterate extensions using iterate::* instead of exported symbols.

>And after looking at the code it wasn't
>obvious (for me, newbie warning).
Maybe I should add a comment here and there (in code and/or TeX documentation).
The implementation somewhat obviously(?) uses the internal interfaces. So of course this leads to copy&paste of this code.

Actually, it's a critique of mine towards Iterate that I haven't yet identified a subset of primitives with which to write the many other Iterate clauses, and so that they work as efficiently as the predefined ones.  It's missing this "growing a language" concept.


>issuing a tla redo. Just in case...
Indeed, I'm not yet using arch/tla.  For now it doesn't make much sense since I cannot (yet?) access common-lisp.net as a developer.
Thanks for the info. I just recently jumped into darcs (cffi), but did not yet try out Arch or subversion.

Regards,
	Jörg Höhle.