merits of Lisp vs Python

[Petter Gustad]

Robert Uhl <eadmund42 at NOSPAMgmail.com> writes:

> that for can understand new objects; CL LOOP is not extensible, unless I
> have missed something big, but it's simple enough to write a
> map-new-object or loop-new-object or whatever).

There is no standard way to extend loop, but most of the major vendors
let you extend it using add-loop-path. In CLSQL you can do stuff like

(loop for (time event) being the tuples of "select time,event from log"
      from *my-db*
      do ... )

Petter
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