Re: Property lists and keywords in PicoLisp

2014-11-03 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de writes: Hi Alex, using flat property lists with keywords like , | (:a b :c d) ` as data (not as a symbol's property list) is pretty common in e.g. Emacs Lisp and elsewhere. In Clojure the keywords even work like functions AFAIK I feel

Re: Property lists and keywords in PicoLisp

2014-11-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Thorsten, In PicoLisp, a property list cannot be seen separated from a symbol. After all, these are properties OF a symbol. It is just an implementation detail that they are a list internally. not in PicoLisp, but e.g. in Emacs Lisp there are standalone plists like the above, and

Re: Tell limit?

2014-11-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Henrik, Today I tried a somewhat longer string of HTML at which point I got this: Tell PIPE_BUF Yes, there is a maximal length to 'tell' messages. Sorry, this should be documented in the reference. It is the system-dependent constant PIPE_BUF, which used to be 512 bytes on old Unixes, and