Simple loop

Summary:

Need to print 5 lines with the word "foo"

Simple loop

Marcosu (guest) 15 Jun 2010 13:59

(for N 5 (prinl "foo"))

why doesn't print 5 times "foo"?

Re: Simple loop

Alexander Burger 15 Jun 2010 15:29

Hi Marcosu,

do you perhaps have a rather old version of picoLisp? This short-cut syntax of 'for' is available only since picoLisp-3.0.2 (last March).

For older versions, you need either write

(do 5 (prinl "foo"))

or

(for (N 1 (>= 5 N) (inc N)) (prinl "foo"))

Cheers,
- Alex

Re: Simple loop

Marcosu (guest) 16 Jun 2010 08:06

Thanks Alex,

I use version 3.0.1 and this explain all.

I'll upgrade asap.

Cheers,
- Marco