thanks for your answers, Alex
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Alexander Burger
wrote:
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> > >(if (testSomething) (doSomething1) (doSomething2) (doSomething3))
> > ...
> > but this also means the only way to indicate several executable
> expressions
> > in the "then-clause" is to surround th
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 09:55:14PM +0100, pd wrote:
> Thank you Alex for your patience, I see I have a severe confussion about
> how picolisp manages lists
No problem! It is good to discuss this here, as it may help others too.
> let's start by the begining... as far as I know (f a b 4) is ju
Thank you Alex for your patience, I see I have a severe confussion about
how picolisp manages lists
let's start by the begining... as far as I know (f a b 4) is just a list
equivalent to (f . (a . (b . (4 . NIL and the fact being also a
function call to function f applying parameters a b 4
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 02:35:09AM +0100, pd wrote:
> sorry, I accidentally sent an incomplete message, here's the complete one
> ...
> >>
> >> BTW, I thought again about the terminology of "list" versus "cons pairs"
> >> and
> >> plain "cells". "list" is a rather unprecise term, I feel it is not
>
sorry, I accidentally sent an incomplete message, here's the complete one
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:51 AM, pd wrote:
> Thanks again for your explanations Alex, still some comments...
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Alexander Burger
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> BTW, I thought again about the termino
Thanks again for your explanations Alex, still some comments...
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Alexander Burger
wrote:
>
>
> BTW, I thought again about the terminology of "list" versus "cons pairs"
> and
> plain "cells". "list" is a rather unprecise term, I feel it is not limited
> to "a
> cha
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:35:20PM +0100, pd wrote:
> Alex, thanks a lot for your very clarifier reply (specially the procedural
> way of thinking which makes a lot of sense to me), I'm still confusing in a
> couple of things...
No problem!
BTW, I thought again about the terminology of "list" ver
Alex, thanks a lot for your very clarifier reply (specially the procedural
way of thinking which makes a lot of sense to me), I'm still confusing in a
couple of things...
I've read in docs that the ' prefix in a name of formal parameter when
describing a funcion indicates it's a evaluated paramet
Hi Pd,
>- three base data types: Numbers, Symbols and Cons Pairs (Lists),
>...
> suggesting dotted pairs are the same as lists, both are
> indistinguishable so it should be possible to write any list as a dotted
> pair, i. e. (1 2) = (1 . (2 . NIL)) but what is the list for (1 . 2) dot
I was reading the picolip documents ref, tutorial and function reference
and I'm afraid I misunderstand some concepts, so I'm asking a bunch of
questions in the hope you can help to achieve a better picolisp
understanding
1- In the ref document it's said talking about types in picolisp:
- thre
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