fishing for answers

Hi, I have a function 'odd?', defined as (de odd? (X) (bit? 1 X) ) This code works fine : (odd? 1) -> 1 : (odd? 2) -> NIL : (odd? (car '(1 2 3))) -> 1 Why doesn't the following code work? : (fish odd? (1 2 3)) !? (bit? 1 X) (1 2 3) -- Number expected ? (fish odd? '(1 2 3)) !? (bit? 1 X) (1

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread!! I agree with most of what you said. However, we are mixing up three different, independent issues: 1. My initial post was about political aspects: Ubuntu does not want to build the binary with position-dependent coding (include the -no-pie flag),

Re: fishing for answers

Hi Lindsay, > (de odd? (X) (bit? 1 X) ) > ... > : (odd? 1) -> 1 > : (odd? 2) -> NIL > ... > : (fish odd? (1 2 3)) > !? (bit? 1 X) > (1 2 3) -- Number expected This happens because 'fish' applies the function to *all* elements of its second argument, not just the atomic ones. > (de odd? (X) (a