DOTIMES is not my cup of tea. I don't like to have to use mutation to get things done. I prefer to have an explicit but more verbose style (named let) or to use

DOTIMES is not my cup of tea. I don't like to have to use mutation to get things done. I prefer to have an explicit but more verbose style (named let) or to use a for loop. A matter of preference of course. The benefits of for loops or named lets is that they are functional and thus continuation safe. I did a bunch of continuation-based nondeterminism things last year, and knowing things weren't mutating was nice.