Lutz, could you enable array support in dolist? I'm using 2.6.0; if this has been changed in later versions, disregard.
And yes, I see the array-list function. Is there a technical reason why it is better to explicitly do an array conversion, rather than iterating over the array directly?
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You can use `for` to iterate over an array directly. But I assume you know that already. Sorry. I don't know what you are trying to do, but I am curious. Good to see you, Ted.
One could see an advantage of making
(dolist (e L)
(println $idx ":" e))
versus:
(dotimes (i (length L))
(println i ":" (L i)))
It was simple to add with one line of code:
http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/development/inprogress/
Nice!
Thank you Lutz!
Rickyboy: principle of least surprise. I use an array for speed and efficiency, but I use them the way I use lists. In general, my brain gets tripped up if I can't use list functions on arrays, unless there is a specific reason why that list function is specific to lists but not to arrays. I saw the recent changes Lutz made to support arrays as first class lists and they really made the language conceptually nicer, requires less brain state from me.