Hi Steven,
> I have decided that man's best friend is 1) a dog, 2) hexdump. ;)
Indeed! Though in this case, when exploring the structure of a PicoLisp
database, I would recommend 'show' and 'edit'.
Perhaps you already found "http://picolisp.com/wiki/?usingedit";? It
explains this specifically in
Hi Alex,
I have decided that man's best friend is 1) a dog, 2) hexdump. ;)
What I did was try out the various prefix classes you mentioned with
the +List, +Ref, +String etc. in different combinations, and just went
and looked at them. More on that below.
> Exactly. But this may not be a good ide
Hi Steven,
> > Hello marmorine,
> Ummm... Steven. ;)
Oops! Sorry :)
> Tried all sorts of size combinations, found one that is more compact, to
> use (0 +Wrds) instead of the block size 1 for it. But then I guess you
> should take a look with "size" to make sure you are not cutting things
> to c
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:13:38 +0200
Alexander Burger wrote:
> Hello marmorine,
>
Ummm... Steven. ;)
>
> A few minor notes:
>
No quoting for local transient symbols, the the (use (G N) has also
been corrected. These are small things, but very useful for me.
>
> You may be able to tune that
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:13:38AM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote:
> And then later try (as in your case)
>
>(while (id (db: +Wrds) (rand 1 *Max)))
>
> because there may be holes in the file due to deleted objects.
Sorry, there are two errors: You must also call 'ext?' to check if you
found a
Hello marmorine,
> (note: a bit long being a first post)
No problem :)
> post a first attempt to check form and convention and company, so here
> the latest variant (working):
> ...
Fine. That looks good.
A few minor notes:
1. As "___ " is a local transient symbol, the single quote is not r
Hi, I just skimmed your post quickly, this project/code might be of
use for you: https://bitbucket.org/hsarvell/indexer
See also the dbs function http://software-lab.de/doc/refD.html#dbs
(with more examples of usage in the example project shipping with
PicoLisp) for how to possibly make the size s
