Re: Matching and Hashes

2017-01-25 Thread Joe Golden
Right you are. Brilliant! Documented indeed! On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 05:47:22PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: Hi Joe, The T appears to act as a function in your first option. Does that act like "If true return the cdr then break out of the for loop"? Yes, exactly. The 'T' is indeed not a

Re: Matching and Hashes

2017-01-25 Thread Lindsay John Lawrence
> I could do this in perl, but I wouldn't be building character ;-) .. 20+yrs ago, I used to say that when using perl instead of some other language :) /Lindsay On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi Joe, > > > The T appears to act as a function in your first option. Doe

Re: Matching and Hashes

2017-01-25 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Joe, > The T appears to act as a function in your first option. Does that act like > "If true return the cdr then break out of the for loop"? Yes, exactly. The 'T' is indeed not a function, but the marker of special clauses in the 'for' syntax (but also 'loop' or 'do'). 'NIL' is also supported

Re: Matching and Hashes

2017-01-25 Thread dean
I've just found filter (which looks like find ALL) whilst reading up on find sothank you very much both for the question and answer. On 25 January 2017 at 07:03, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi Joe, > > > (de account-list > > ("Bank Charge"."Expenses:Bank Fee") # match

Re: Matching and Hashes

2017-01-25 Thread Joe Golden
Thanx Alex. The T appears to act as a function in your first option. Does that act like "If true return the cdr then break out of the for loop"? Would this work correctly if something matched twice? I expect only one match and woulk like the match and break behavior. I could do this in perl

Re: In the docs: within or vice versa, more glitches

2017-01-25 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hi Jon, > It seems you forgot something in doc/form/refF.html, line 101. I guess there > should have been “Formatting” just before the final “.” Seems so, added the missing word. Regards, Mattias -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe

Re: In the docs: within or vice versa, more glitches

2017-01-25 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Mattias, It seems you forgot something in doc/form/refF.html, line 101. I guess there should have been “Formatting” just before the final “.” /Jon > On 23. Jan, 2017, at 14:12, Mattias Sundblad wrote: > > Hi Jon, > >> I’ve found a few more glitches: > > Thanks, I'll go through them and c