Re: Little mess around the docs in the ref

2014-08-23 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi, If Christophe is referring to the logic in doc/rlook.html, then I should be able to fix that. I’m almost there, but there is something I’m struggling with. Maybe tomorrow. ;-) /Jon On 23. aug. 2014, at 08:15, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi Christophe, > >> `car` and `cdr` are ok but all t

Re: Little mess around the docs in the ref

2014-08-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, > If Christophe is referring to the logic in doc/rlook.html, then I > should be able to fix that. Ah, I see! Yes, this makes sense. > I’m almost there, but there is something I’m struggling with. Maybe > tomorrow. ;-) Thanks! :) ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?s

NIL and ""

2014-08-23 Thread Christophe Gragnic
Hi all, Is there somewhere some info about "" being NIL? I'd like to know why, maybe with some historical hindsight, and if there is a mean to trick the interpreter? The language I'm trying to embed in PicoLisp would love to have "" and NIL different ! chri -- http://profgra.org/lycee/ (site

Re: NIL and ""

2014-08-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Christophe, > Is there somewhere some info about "" being NIL? http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#nilSym ... • to represent a string of length zero ... http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#nilSym-io Besides for standard normal form, NIL is also recognized as ()

Re: NIL and ""

2014-08-23 Thread Christophe Gragnic
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: >> Is there somewhere some info about "" being NIL? >http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#nilSym >http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#nilSym-io Thanks. I knew about this links, I just wanted to know why. >> The language I'm trying t

Re: NIL and ""

2014-08-23 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Christophe Gragnic wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Alexander Burger > wrote: >>> Is there somewhere some info about "" being NIL? >>http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#nilSym >>http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#nilSym-io > > Thanks. I knew ab

Re: NIL and ""

2014-08-23 Thread Christophe Gragnic
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Michel Pelletier wrote: > > If NIL doesn't exist at all, then why do you need to expose it? If > you language exposes lists or strings then empty ones carry the same > meaning. I don't want to expose it. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. In particular, I'd like

Re: NIL and ""

2014-08-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Christophe, > wrote: > > > > If NIL doesn't exist at all, then why do you need to expose it? If > > you language exposes lists or strings then empty ones carry the same > > meaning. > > I don't want to expose it. > Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. > In particular, I'd like my users to typ

Re: NIL and ""

2014-08-23 Thread Christophe Gragnic
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Alexander Burger wrote: > >> wrote: >> > >> > If NIL doesn't exist at all, then why do you need to expose it? If >> > you language exposes lists or strings then empty ones carry the same >> > meaning. >> >> I don't want to expose it. >> Sorry, maybe I wasn't clea