Re: Cutting a circular list.

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Konrad, > I would say that there are some functions where additional verbosity > is warranted. the function for assigning values is one such place. > Especially when the acutal behaviour may not be what people with Lisp > experience expect. > > While succinctness is good in documentation, it i

Re: Cutting a circular list.

2008-10-12 Thread konrad Zielinski
Hmm. var - Variable: Either a symbol or a cell (set 'var 'any ..) -> any Stores new values any in the var arguments. See also setq, val and def. Even taken in concert these two snippets don't actually explain what will happen if var is a cell. It may be obvious (if you already know) that if

Re: picoWiki

2008-10-12 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
> I will have to implement some picoWiki markup for html anchor for > this. Anchors is a bad idea actually. It does not go well with the wiki style links and page management. Also, using anchors leads to long documents which are pain to edit in a wiki. Every topic worth referencing should have