first of all a big thanks for the detailed explanation.
I scoured the manual and book for all occurrences of destructive, every
so often a difference kind of use pops up, like when a counter in
incremented destructively, things like that, but wanted to see what
commands are clearly modifying the
hello list, this is my first post here.
thank you very much for posting this marmorine!
i'm not a coder but i have a philosophical interest in lisp,
and i've also been planning a note-taking/organizing program
that would use similar navigation to what you have there.
so this code is very good
Hi marmorine,
and there I was stumped at first, wondering what is
destructive, what is not and so forth (or what that even IS)
You are right. It is a confusing issue. Let me try to explain it a
little.
An operation is destructive when it modifies a data structure in such a
way that other
Hi Mart,
hello list, this is my first post here.
Welcome :)
i'm not a coder but i have a philosophical interest in lisp,
That's interesting! Which philosophical aspects do you have in mind?
♪♫ Alex
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I had been meaning to ask this same question myself (and thanks to dave
for bringing it up). I wrote a quick launcher namely for the console,
it uses rotate to select options and settings, that changes the options
list in place and worked really well actually, I like the effect.
Then I wanted to
Hi Dave,
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 01:18:19AM +, Loyall, David wrote:
Should either (insert ...) or (place ...) be destructive?
No, but destructive operators could be made in a similar way.
A destructive 'place' is basically 'set', BTW, if you combine it with
'nth' or 'seek' etc..
Are
Should either (insert ...) or (place ...) be destructive?
Are they meant to be synonyms?
Cheers,
--Dave
: (setq truck '(frame))
- (frame)
: (show truck)
- (frame)
: (insert '2 truck 'cab)
- (frame cab)
: (show truck)
- (frame)
: (place '2 truck 'cab)
- (frame cab)
: (show
