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Docstring for WHILE-COLLECTING.

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;;;; General Purpose Utilities
(defmacro while-collecting ((&rest collectors) &body body)
"COLLECTORS should be a list of names for collections. A collector
defines a function that, when applied to an argument inside BODY, will
add its argument to the corresponding collection. Returns multiple values,
a list for each collection, in order.
E.g.,
\(while-collecting \(foo bar\)
\(dolist \(x '\(\(a 1\) \(b 2\) \(c 3\)\)\)
\(foo \(first x\)\)
\(bar \(second x\)\)\)\)
Returns two values: \(A B C\) and \(1 2 3\)."
(let ((vars (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (gensym (symbol-name x))) collectors))
(initial-values (mapcar (constantly nil) collectors)))
`(let ,(mapcar #'list vars initial-values)
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