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DOSTRING
- To: Common-Lisp at SU-AI
- Subject: DOSTRING
- From: FEINBERG at CMU-20C
- Date: Thu, 20 May 1982 20:12:00 -0000
Howdy!
Dostring was a very useful iteration construct, and I request
that it be put back into the manual. I know that there is dotimes,
but I am much more interested in the character of the string, not the
index into it. It is very inefficient to keep on accessing the nth
character of a string, and a hassle to lambda bind it, when there was
such a perfect construct for dealing with this all before. I realize
we can't keep all the type specific functions, but this one seems
especially useful.