The subtree that is evaluated upon each iteration needs to have access
to locally scoped data, for example, the index variable of the loop.
This seems to fit with macros.

Kirshenbaum 2001 discusses this:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-327.pdf


Sean Luke wrote:

> ADMs are used identically to ADFs: but they evaluate child trees
> repeatedly and on-the-fly as called for in the remote tree.  This
> emulates one essential difference between a macro and a function in
> Lisp.
>
> That being said, I don't think an ADM is exactly what you're looking
> for.  Why not just write a nonterminal node which does a loop on its
> kids like below?
>
> Sean
>
> On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:26 PM, George Coles wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the tip. I have never used ADMs, for some reason I find
>> them
>> confusing - for example, should I call super.eval within the evaluate
>> method?
>>
>> Sean Luke wrote:
>>
>>> It depends on how you want to do loops.  What do you mean by
>>> automatically-defined-loops exactly?  It seems to me that the
>>> straightforward way is to just have a loop macro as one of your
>>> nodes, whose eval() method looks something like this:
>>>
>>>     result = empty
>>>     n = eval first child
>>>     loop n times or until MAX_ALLOWED_LOOPS:
>>>         result = eval second child
>>>     return result
>>>
>>> Or you could have a while loop along these lines:
>>>
>>>     count = 0;
>>>     loop up to MAX_ALLOWED_LOOPS:
>>>         n = eval first child
>>>         if n == true then eval second child and return
>>>     return empty
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:55 PM, George Coles wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>    Can anyone point me to an example of automatically defined loops
>>>> that works with tree-based GP? Has anyone implemented loops in ECJ?
>>>> I am
>>>> contemplating beginning to add this feature to my copy of ECJ and it
>>>> seems a bit daunting. Could the ADF stack be leveraged somehow to do
>>>> this? As an aside, it seems odd that iteration and recursion are not
>>>> more popular as a topic of discussion. I expect that I will really
>>>> need
>>>> iteration, at least, in my project, and I would think that many
>>>> people
>>>> would find it very valuable.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> George Coles
>>>>
>>>
>