Re: loop bug

[Raymond T. <to...@rt...>]

>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> writes:

    Sam> I am not sure one is allowed to assume that the loop local
    Sam> variables still exist in the `finally' clause.  convince me
    Sam> otherwise and I will try to fix this.

Good point.  I don't really know the answer to this.  I looked through
the CLHS but didn't find any comments on what is or is not allowed in
a FINALLY clause.

However, the very first example I looked at in CLtL2 has this example
where a loop local variable is in the FINALLY clause:

(loop for i from 1 to 10
      when (> i 5)
        collect i
      finally (print i))

which should print 11 and return the list '(6 7 8 9 10).

Is that enough?

In any case, as I mentioned, I'm replacing this code with an
equivalent do loop because this loop is just too hard for me to
understand. 

Ray