> (wishful thinking: alternative syntax for representing transient
> > symbols without embedded spaces. maybe something like \xxx)
>
> Yeah, that's something I'm missing too. Transient symbols which
> represent not just strings simply look ugly.
>
There is in fact another option: using 'zap'. If y
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Alexander Burger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:57:17AM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote:
>> I was thinking of re-introducing a syntax like :MyParam, or perhaps
>> MyParam, but this saves only a single character over "MyParam", and
>> doesn't look so very much be
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:57:17AM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote:
> I was thinking of re-introducing a syntax like :MyParam, or perhaps
> MyParam, but this saves only a single character over "MyParam", and
> doesn't look so very much better.
>
> The main reason of not doing this was that it adds y
Hi Edwin,
> at the moment, we have transient symbols as "my transient symbols".
> this syntax for this is just fine. what if we can express "MyParam", a
> transient symbol as \MyParam (or something similar) (a personal quirk,
> i dislike double quotes too much).
I'm completely with you. In fact,
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Alexander Burger wrote:
> Hi Edwin,
>
>> (wishful thinking: alternative syntax for representing transient
>> symbols without embedded spaces. maybe something like \xxx)
>
> Yeah, that's something I'm missing too. Transient symbols which
> represent not just strings
Hi Edwin,
> (wishful thinking: alternative syntax for representing transient
> symbols without embedded spaces. maybe something like \xxx)
Yeah, that's something I'm missing too. Transient symbols which
represent not just strings simply look ugly.
In fact, there exists something along that line
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Alexander Burger wrote:
> Hi Edwin,
>
>> if i understand correctly, () when called outside a method works
>> only when a file is (load)ed?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. Isn't that the case for _any_ function?
check. i realized this after sending my firs
Hi Edwin,
> if i understand correctly, () when called outside a method works
> only when a file is (load)ed?
I'm not sure what you mean here. Isn't that the case for _any_ function?
To my understanding '' is a normal function, which clears the
transient symbol table as a side effect.
replying to myself, wrote a test...
(de test1 ()
(if (not (num? "ctr"))
(setq "ctr" 1)
(inc '"ctr")
)
(prinl "ctr")
()
)
(test1)
(test1)
(prinl "ctr")
did a face palm and tells myself "that's how a static behaves in C!".
did that explain that right?
what are other ca
