suppose we have written a macro called FORLOOP. We wanted to imitate the behaviour of regular for loop in C or Java. What will be the output of this following program? If you think it will not work, please state why. (THIS CODE IS WRITTEN IN LISP)   (defmarcro forloop (start end inc &rest bodies) (let ( (g (gensym)) ) `(do ( (,g ,start (+ ,g ,inc)) ) ( (>= ,g ,end)) ,@ bodies )

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suppose we have written a macro called FORLOOP. We wanted to imitate the behaviour of regular for loop in C or Java. What will be the output of this following program? If you think it will not work, please state why. (THIS CODE IS WRITTEN IN LISP)

 

(defmarcro forloop (start end inc &rest bodies)
(let ( (g (gensym)) )
`(do ( (,g ,start (+ ,g ,inc)) )
( (>= ,g ,end))
,@ bodies
)
)
)
(setf count 0)
(forloop count 10 4 (princ (setf count (+ 1 count)))) 

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