Re: How to cast an imperative loop into a readable recursive function ?

[Paul Rubin]

Katalin Sinkov <lispstylist@gmail.com> writes:
> what I forgot to mention was that it should be possible to view the
> subseries problem in a way that I dont have to go thru a loop but use
> recursive definitions.

The problem is still very confusing, but it sounds to me like maybe
you want something like (untested):

   (defun foo (n str)
      (let ((s ...) (l ...) (p ...)
           ;; after reading the (s=2 l=4) prefix above,
           ;; p points past the end of it
           (if (< n l) 
              (aref str (+ p n))
             (foo (- n l) (substring str (+ p l)))))))