Thanks Dave. That looks painful, but I look forward to seeing your implementation.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Loyall, David <david.loy...@nebraska.gov> wrote: > > From: Alexander Williams > [...] > > I also wrote a tutorial explaining the code, to help other > > newbies understand some useful features of PicoLisp: > > > > https://github.com/aw/picolisp-nanomsg/blob/master/EXPLAIN.md > > This is great, Alexander! > > I really like this part: > > > (setq Result (12 104 101 108 108 111 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)) > > -> (12 104 101 108 108 111 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0) > > : (head (car Result) (cdr Result)) > > -> (104 101 108 108 111 0 0 8 0 0 0 0) > > > > [...] > > > > : (pack (mapcar char (head (car Result) (cdr Result)))) > > -> "hello^H" > > > > **Note:** What this means is it receives the 8K buffer which > > contains a bunch of zeros at the end (assuming you didn't > > fill the buffer), it maps over the list, sets the zeros to > > NIL, packs it and you end up with a nice friendly string. > > Now, I can go back to some (failed) hobby code I made to interface with > https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Regular-Expressions.html > . > > In my first attempt, I got stuck at the point where I need to handle the > Result struct... > > Thank you, > --Dave >
