Python does the same thing with range: >>> range(1,10) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Leaving out the starting value starts at zero: >>> range(10) [0, 1, 2,

Python does the same thing with range: >>> range(1,10) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Leaving out the starting value starts at zero: >>> range(10) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Which is like dotimes: [1]> (dotimes (i 10) (format t "~d" i)) 0123456789 NIL There's an implied "less than the supplied high value" in all cases.