Multi-programming-language "cookbook", control/paradigms (Chapter 4)

Table of contents:

flow of control, decisions, loops
[mapping across collections] -- Stub: mapping down a sequence (vector or linked-list) or across all elements of other types of collections
[enumerations/iterators, continuations/streams, pipes, filters]
[generic functions, operator/function overloading]
[instance methods]
[classes, interfaces, inheritance]
[multi-processing, threads]
[RPC (remote procedure call), RMI (remote method invocation)]

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Flow of control, decisions, loops

Ordinary blocks of statements that don't return values were already discussed earlier, and if-then statements and expressions, loops, were all discussed earlier. Here I'll just include one more item not mentionned before:

Execute a sequence of statements/expressions in sequence, passing the value of the last expression up to be the value of the overall expression:

c, c++ -- stmt1, stmt2, ... stmty, expressionz (typically used inside the keepGoing test within if statements and while statements)
lisp -- (progn stmt1 stmt2 ... stmty expressionz) (used all over the place, and implicit in many other constructs such as defun, let, cond, when, unless, etc.

Stub: more complete discussion of if/then/else and COND (lisp only)

Stub: more complete discussion of PROG and its component parts

Stub: case/switch/select statements

Stub: using ASSOC to emulate case/switch/select statement (lisp only)

Stub: new LOOP macro (Common Lisp only)

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