> return/if/while/break/continue actually work in Hylang. Common Lisp doesn't have these.
Don't know where you get your facts from, but Common Lisp certainly has those.
Don't know where you get your facts from, but Common Lisp certainly has those.
(for [element (range 1 10)]
(print element)
(if (= element 5)
(break)))
CL-USER 51 > (loop for element from 1 upto 10 do
(print element)
(if (= element 5)
(return)))
1
2
3
4
5
NILI definitely made a stupid mistake of clubbing CL with scheme and clojure but in those languages they avoid these imperative features.
I have made other points as well which makes Hylang different from the rest.
1. Hylang is a transpiler. Don't compare it with other lisps. Sibilant and Liskell are others in the same league.
2. Hylang has more useful libraries than all the other lisps.
3. Right now, I find Hylang best suited to write good old imperative dirty scripts that get stuff done. If you have used Python, Ruby, Perl ... it's practically heaven.
4. I stress the imperative part again because ... because that's my stupidity of choice. I'm a scripting guy! I'm familiar with that stuff. The best part of lisp for me is not the macros. It's that I don't have to google for syntax that often and "-" beats the "_" for variable names.
5. ipdb works too!
But you are aware that the FOR loop code you posted looks almost exactly like the LOOP FOR code in Common Lisp?