Hi list,
I was thinking about some of the things brought up in the last thread, 'The
`if-let` construct', notably Mike's comment about certain idioms being
useless within the PicoLisp feature set. Now I like Clojure's '->' just as
much as the next Clojure enthusiast, but I agree we don't need it i
Hi Erik
Thanks for writing this awesome article, your humour made it a very joyful read!
I actually found that technique myself too, and used it in certain cases, its
just perfect when you have multiple sequential things to do but you want to
cancel execution when one of it fails.
When using th
Of course you can also use (or) to achieve the opposite - stop when a call or
evaluation returns something (not NIL).
This way you have actually a very cheap implementation of the Design Pattern
(GoF) 'chain of responsibility', when one function successfully handles the
required case, stop there
Hey Beneroth,
Thanks for the kind words, my pleasure to share with you all.
Of course you can also use (or) to achieve the opposite - stop when a call
> or evaluation returns something (not NIL).
> This way you have actually a very cheap implementation of the Design
> Pattern (GoF) 'chain of resp
I feel like I've seen the answer to this somewhere in the past when I was
just a baby PicoLisper, but can't seem to find it now. Anyway, what's the
canonical way to customize the default 'pil' environment? I'd like to have
some of my own utilities and other goodies loaded when I start up. Can I
jus
> what's the canonical way to customize the default 'pil' environment?
> I'd like to have some of my own utilities and other goodies loaded when I
> start up.
> Can I just stick the necessary calls to (load) in .pilrc? :)
I'm not aware of any .pilrc mechanics, search in mailing list also yields
Hi Erik + Andreas,
first of all, thanks Erik for the nice "Unnest" article!
> > what's the canonical way to customize the default 'pil' environment?
> > I'd like to have some of my own utilities and other goodies loaded when I
> > start up.
> > Can I just stick the necessary calls to (load) in
