Hi All, this is very encouraging. thank you for taking time to write 'walls' of stuff. :D
chewing on this bit by bit. Ana On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi Dexen, > > I agree with all you wrote, except when you write about association > lists: > >> Nb., this mechanism is used internally in picoLisp for symbol properties=20 >> (aside of the general value of the symbol, each symbol can have any number = >> of=20 >> (KEY . VALUE) properties associated with it). Access with (get) and (set). > > There is a slight difference: The cells in a symbol's property list are > not of the form (KEY . VALUE), but of (VALUE . KEY), so they are not > really an association list. > > 'get' searches for KEY in a similar way, but the convenient feature is > that 'prop' and '::' return a cell with VALUE in the CAR, so it can be > used directly with functions that expect a 'var' argument (e.g. 'inc', > 'dec', 'push', 'pop', 'queue' and so on). > > The statement Access with (get) and (set) is correct for 'get', but I > assume you mean 'put' for the equivalet setter function. > > > About the problem of your "meta!" mail: > >> =2D--- >> ... >> =2D-=20 >> dexen deVries >> >> [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] > > You are right that the mail is indeed clobbered with escaped characters. > Can it be that this is a problem of mail client(s)? Because mails from > other members of this group don't have them. > > Cheers, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe > -- http://nybl.info -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
