Re: Compress a sequence of ends

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@...>]

David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
>> On the other hand, if a loop and a conditional, or nested loops,
>> have the same body, I write as a habit
>>    for i=1,n  if x[i]~=0
>>        -- (body)
>>        end end
>
> I also commonly do things like
>
> for k=1, 10 do
> for j=1, 10 do
> for i=1, 10 do
>   f(i, j, k)
> end end end
>
> Replacing `end end end` with `ennnd` or (preferably) `end3` is not
> going to gain much. 

I've got an idea.  Let's use a single character, instead of a keyword
here.

(for k=1, 10 do
 (for j=1, 10 do
  (for i=1, 10 do
    f(i, j, k)
    )))



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