Re: (symbols) inside a function

2012-01-31 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Imran, > The intention behind the code (see below) is pretty simple. (mk) will > create a new namespace (well, a new symbol table), and (dset) should > set a variable in a specified namespace. For one thing, you can easily set a variable in another namespace with: (setq Dc~k1 123) This wo

(symbols) inside a function

2012-01-31 Thread Imran Rafique
Alex, Tomas, Axel (and all other picolisp coders out there), Another newbie question here, this time using (symbols) inside a function. The intention behind the code (see below) is pretty simple. (mk) will create a new namespace (well, a new symbol table), and (dset) should set a variable in a sp

Re: Web app example using ersatz

2012-01-31 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, now I've also updated the Wiki sources in "wiki.tgz". As some may have noticed, there is a new feature "social share privacy buttons" in the Wiki. I've added a link to the sources in http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?Documentation A short explanation can be found in lib/socialshar

Re: Web app example using ersatz

2012-01-31 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Joe, > Hi Alex - Great! I see the drawback with losing the name. For now I've > just added some text to instruct "please rename to a zip". With such > cryptic file names it adds to the security by obscurity (hah!). Haha, yeah. But, anyway, I've found a way. I generate a which calls a functi

Re: Web app example using ersatz

2012-01-31 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On January 31, 2012 at 11:19 AM Joe Bogner wrote: > worried about the security of it. Maybe if I were to pick a single > mimetype, I'd go with zip or tar.gz as that's the main reason someone > would upload if it's too much to paste in as a code example or to > include a complete working examp

Re: Web app example using ersatz

2012-01-31 Thread Joe Bogner
Hi Henrik, Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I plan on extending it further. I fixed a small bug with having to decode the urlencoded post variables (e.g. 'hello%20world'). At first I was stumped because ht:Pack is implemented in ht.c so there wasn't a java implementation (ht:Pack (chop "hello%20wor

Re: Web app example using ersatz

2012-01-31 Thread Joe Bogner
Hi Alex - Great! I see the drawback with losing the name. For now I've just added some text to instruct "please rename to a zip". With such cryptic file names it adds to the security by obscurity (hah!). Reminds me of the old trick in email to have file "foo.zip.rename" to suggest people to rename

Re: Web app example using ersatz

2012-01-31 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Joe, > > I uploaded the code but couldn't figure out how to link to it on the page. > > I'm afraid this is not possible. The wiki supports only and Now I've added support for arbitrary files to the Wiki. > We could extend it for arbitrary mimetypes, but then I'm not sure which > tag to gen