Another perspective, if you're new to Scheme, I'd recommend getting in the habit of using higher-order procedures before loops. The principle is that looping is an error-prone (e.g. infinite loops) low level operation, so it's best to factor that out and use an established and tested library procedure instead of writing new iteration logic each time.
The big 3 are filter, fold, and map in SRFI 1 ( http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Unit%20srfi-1 ). I'd actually implement your pseudocode with (for-each (lambda (i) (for-each (lambda (j) (for-each (lambda (k) (print (+ i j k))) '(7 8 9))) '(4 5 6))) '(1 2 3)) You mentioned "calculation" so I wager you'll actually want to use fold, not for-each. Regards, Kevin Wortman On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:04 AM Jinsong Liang <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, this is amazing! Thanks a lot Christian! > > Jinsong > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Christian Kellermann <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> * Jinsong Liang <[email protected]> [160714 04:26]: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I want to do nested loops over three lists like the following pseudo >> code: >> > >> > for i in '(1 2 3) >> > for j in '(4 5 6) >> > for k in '(7 8 9) >> > //do calculation using i, j, and k. The three lists are not >> > related. >> > end >> > end >> > end >> > >> > What is the best way to do this in Chicken? I can use (for-each ...) or >> (do >> > ...) but it seems neither is straightforward. >> >> Without knowing the purpose of this it's hard to say. However scheme >> is flexible enough to allow an almost verbatim translation using >> foof-loop: >> >> (use foof-loop) >> >> (loop ((for i (in-list '(1 2 3)))) >> (loop ((for j (in-list '(4 5 6)))) >> (loop ((for k (in-list '(7 8 9)))) >> (print "Magic " i "+" j "+" k " = " >> (+ i j k))))) >> >> HTH, >> >> Christian >> >> -- >> May you be peaceful, may you live in safety, may you be free from >> suffering, and may you live with ease. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users >
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