On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:17 PM, David Sargeant <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems that the looping constructs don't currently return a value. In
> other words, they don't return an array of the results. CoffeeScript
> allows for both scenarios, that is, looping for side-effects and looping
> that returns an array of results. I'm thinking it would be very useful to
> have dotimes*, dolist*, for-in*, etc. that return an array of results.
> Below is an example from coffeescript.org. Let me know what you think.
>
>
> David
>
>
> countdown = (num for num in [10..1])
>
>
In Common Lisp—and Parenscript—that would be
(loop for num :from 10 :to 1
collect num)
Which expands to roughly the same JS code.
— B. Smilga.
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