conditional loop

[mparsa]

How we can have a conditional loop in lisp ?
I know that we can dotimes for having loop but I want to have a condition : until var is not equal to "test" continue and when it equals to "test" do not continue.

[Goheeca]

Check out loop macro (http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/cl/loop.html, http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/loop-for-black-belts.html)

Solution for your issue is:

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(loop until condition do form)

where condition and form are code not loop keywords.

[pjstirling]

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(defmacro until (test &body body)
  `(do ()
       (,test)
     ,@body))
;; and its companion
(defmacro while (test &body body)
  `(until (not ,test)
     ,@body))