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Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 6:11 am**

(silent)
(dolist (a '(2 4 6 8))
    (println a))

(dolist (a '(1 3 5 7))
    (format "%d" a))

When i do this, newlisp gives me this,

2
4
6
8

I thought this should be like,

2
4
6
8
"1" "3" "5" "7"

Am I missing something in lisp-way?

Sorry for a dull question.

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 3:57 pm**

chang wrote:When i do this

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(silent)
(dolist (a '(2 4 6 8))
    (println a))

(dolist (a '(1 3 5 7))
    (format "%d" a))

chang wrote:newlisp gives me this

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chang wrote:I thought this should be like

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2
4
6
8
"1" "3" "5" "7"

Here are some of the things I see here. silent should be wrapped around the output you want to suppress, as in:

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> (silent (dolist (a (sequence 2 8 2)) (println a)))
2
4
6
8
_; note: the prompt will be missing. press [enter] to see the prompt again.

Also, format returns a string but does not print output. Within the dolist as you have it, the result is just being thrown away with each iteration. Placing a print before format would give you:

N.B. Please see Lutz's comment directly following this post for a correction to the code samples below.

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> [cmd](silent 
	(dolist (a (sequence 2 8 2)) (println a)) 
	(dolist (a (sequence 1 7 2)) (print (format "%d" a))))
[/cmd]
2
4
6
8
1357_

This is close, but you had expected the results to be strings, so you could also do this:

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> [cmd](silent 
	(dolist (a (sequence 2 8 2)) (println a)) 
	(dolist (a (sequence 1 7 2)) (print (format ""%d" " a))))
[/cmd]
2
4
6
8
"1" "3" "5" "7"	_

chang wrote:Sorry for a dull question.

It's those shiny questions that can be the worst :-)

m i c h a e l

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 5:04 pm**

... make sure [cmd] [/cmd] tags are on their own separate lines when pasting multi-line code to work correctly:

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> [cmd]
(silent 
   (dolist (a (sequence 2 8 2)) (println a)) 
   (dolist (a (sequence 1 7 2)) (print (format "%d" a)))) 
[/cmd]
2
4
6
8
1357

Lutz

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 6:56 pm**

Lutz wrote:make sure [cmd] [/cmd] tags are on their own separate lines when pasting multi-line code to work correctly:

Whoops! Thank you, Lutz.

m i c h a e l

Posted: **Fri May 26, 2006 1:05 am**

Thanks, m i c h a e l !

You solved my 4 hour blunder :)

Have a nice day !

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:47 am**

chang wrote:Thanks, m i c h a e l !

A belated "You're welcome" to you, chang :-)

Welcome to the wonderful world of newLISP!

m i c h a e l

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