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		shawn_w 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces And then there's Scheme, where there are no iterative loops; all looping is done with recursion. You can build pretty much everything other languages do with loops on top of that, though.

groovy2shoes 11 months ago [–]

Not true. Scheme has `do`. See R7RS section 4.2.4 "Iteration".

shawn_w 11 months ago | [–]

Scheme's `do` is implemented using recursion. There's a sample macro for it in 7.3.

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