[Ma-linux] Strange Emacs Lisp behavior

[Alan McConnell]

Assembles Wisdom!

In the course of my LISP-learning, I found that on my system -- Debian
etch, GNU Emacs 21.4.1 -- Emacs LISP doesn't recognize the DO
macro!  I am informed by a LISP guru friend of mine on the West
Coast that the following test code runs on his xemacs system.

(start)--------------------------
;; run this with 'a' 4 or 5 or 6
(defun simple-do (a)
  (do (   (i 1 (+ i 1))
          (lst ())
      )  ; end of DO initialization

      (
        (equal (length lst) a )
         lst
      )  ;  end of END-TEST

;; What follows is the BODY of the DO-loop 
     (setq lst (cons i lst))

  )  ; end of do

)  ; end of defun

                                 ------------------------(finish)
	What experiences have you had?  All comments, suggestions,
	welcome.

Happy Holidays to all!

Alan

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