Barry Margolin wrote:

(mapcan #'(lambda (x) (and (numberp x) (list x))) list)

(loop for x in list
when (numberp x) collect x)

I agree with this example. Once I learned LOOP I never used the
above idiom again.

(filter number? '(a b c 1 2 3))

(1 2 3)

Does using "loop" cripple the brain, or do only those
with crippled brains use "loop"?

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On 2024-09-12, B. Pym <Nobody447095@here-nor-there.org> wrote:

Barry Margolin wrote:

(mapcan #'(lambda (x) (and (numberp x) (list x))) list)

(loop for x in list
when (numberp x) collect x)

I agree with this example. Once I learned LOOP I never used the
above idiom again.

(filter number? '(a b c 1 2 3))

(1 2 3)

Also, once you realize that "remove-if-not" is "keep-if":

(remove-if-not #'numberp list)

then you also will not use the poor "idiom":

(mapcan #'(lambda (x) (and (numberp x) (list x))) list)

Not to mention that once you learn that (lambda ...) is
a macro which writes #'(lambda ...) for you, you will tend
not to use the latter again.

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