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:Re: Loop macro - why?

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From: No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org (Robert L.)
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Subject: :Re: Loop macro - why?
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 09:29:20 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Robert L. - Sun, 27 Mar 2022 09:29 UTC

> I don't know about you, but it's _much_ easier for me to understand this
> oh-so-common idiom with the extended loop:
>
> (loop for x in *big-list*
> collect (1+ x) )

(mapcar '1+ '(200 300 400 500))

(201 301 401 501)