Re: Property lists and keywords in PicoLisp

2014-11-05 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger writes: Hi Alex, >> > In PicoLisp, a property list cannot be seen separated from a symbol. >> > After all, these are properties OF a symbol. It is just an >> > implementation detail that they are a list internally. >> >> not in PicoLisp, but e.g. in Emacs Lisp there are standal

Re: Property lists and keywords in PicoLisp

2014-11-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Thorsten, > > In PicoLisp, a property list cannot be seen separated from a symbol. > > After all, these are properties OF a symbol. It is just an > > implementation detail that they are a list internally. > > not in PicoLisp, but e.g. in Emacs Lisp there are standalone plists like > the above,

Re: Property lists and keywords in PicoLisp

2014-11-03 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger writes: Hi Alex, >> using flat property lists with keywords like >> >> , >> | (:a b :c d) >> ` >> >> as data (not as a symbol's property list) is pretty common in e.g. Emacs >> Lisp and elsewhere. In Clojure the keywords even work like functions >> AFAIK > > I feel tha

Re: Property lists and keywords in PicoLisp

2014-11-01 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Thorsten, > using flat property lists with keywords like > > , > | (:a b :c d) > ` > > as data (not as a symbol's property list) is pretty common in e.g. Emacs > Lisp and elsewhere. In Clojure the keywords even work like functions > AFAIK I feel that I don't completely understand the