Re: Ersatz update: Method references and functional interfaces

2013-03-17 Thread Guillermo R. Palavecino
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:18:43 +0100 Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de wrote: It is an important feature of PicoLisp that a construct like 'funcall' is NOT needed. One of the fundamental principles of the PicoLisp evaluation mechanisms is that the CAR of a list is evaluated, and then used

Re: Ersatz update: Method references and functional interfaces

2013-03-15 Thread Guillermo R. Palavecino
You should reconsider writing mapcars like crazy. Not only makes the code overly redundant and verbose, but since picolisp has no compiler, it will do exactly what you express, and so it will traverse the list once for every mapcar you do, and what's worse, it will create a new list each time

Re: Auto BackPort Script

2013-01-15 Thread Guillermo R. Palavecino
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:36:51 +0100 Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de wrote: The normal way of course is: (de callCheck (Ret . @) (when (pass call) Ret ) ) This avoids 'cons'ing a list (explicitly with 'mapcar' or implicitly with 'rest'). It's all right. I did the

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2013-01-12 Thread Guillermo R. Palavecino
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Auto BackPort Script

2013-01-12 Thread Guillermo R. Palavecino
Hi all. This is a script I wrote to auto-build .deb packages with the latest sources, or a specific (current) repo version. Haven't tested it thoroughly. So far it works just fine here. It lacks some things like dependency checking/installing and a few tests for things that could go wrong here and