Also, a + at the end of the command line is special; it turns on *Dbg
and is not included in (argv).
> > bare dash. is there any way around it?
Make a wrapper like this:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/picolisp /usr/lib/picolisp/lib.l file.l +++ "$@" +++
Then in file.l, remove the extraneous +++:
(setq A
Hi Dexen,
> * by default, many derivative cat use single, bare dash (`-') to stand for
> /dev/stdin, but picolisp (the interpreter) seems to skip arguments after
> first
> bare dash. is there any way around it?
Right, a single dash has a special meaning on the command line. It
inhibits the lo
Hi Jose, Alexander,
HOn Monday 05 of November 2012 16:15:39 you wrote:
> (...)
> and instead of 'argv' use 'opt':
>
>(while (opt)
> (in @
> (while (rd 1)
> (wr @) ) ) )
>
> and thus we are almost at José's solution ;-)
thanks you both for explanations, it helps a
Hi Dexen,
> inspired by recent post on HN, i want to learn picoLisp (at last :P) by re-
> implementing some basic UNIX tools. here goes the venerable cat:
OK, so let me refine it.
As already pointed out by José, it could be simply reduced to 'echo'.
However, if you do it by hand,
> #!/usr/bin/
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:29:42 +0100
dexen deVries wrote:
> On Monday 05 of November 2012 10:54:20 you wrote:
> > rd without argument (or with a sym) means binary read, it tries to
> > read an atom or expression in the binary PLIO format (used by pr).
> > Rd with a number argument means to read the
On Monday 05 of November 2012 15:29:42 dexen wrote:
> (...) here goes the venerable cat:
..and a bugfix -- support the all-important "-" ;-)
#!/usr/bin/env plmod
(mapcar '(
(file)
(in (if (= file "-")
NIL
file )
(use X
On Monday 05 of November 2012 10:54:20 you wrote:
> rd without argument (or with a sym) means binary read, it tries to read
> an atom or expression in the binary PLIO format (used by pr). Rd with a
> number argument means to read the given amount of bytes as a bignum.
> The sym argument is an optio
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:37:07 +0100
dexen deVries wrote:
> hello list,
>
> why does `rd' return NIL in simplest use ('sym or NIL argument):
> (in "info.txt"
>(print (rd]
>
> while it seems to work fine with 'cnt argument:
> (in "info.txt"
>(print (rd 1]
>
> guess i'm doing something wro
