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5/7/04 10:27:59 AM
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Scheme to the rescue
Scheme always evaluates the first item in the expression. If you want to make a list, you have to use one of the list constuctors: (cons (cons 1 2) 3) or (list 1 2 3) Ok, so now that you know that there's a major dialect of Lisp that resolves your concerns, does this mean that you are going to embrace the language? :-)
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Why I find LISP hard to read
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tablizer)
- (25)
- May 7, 2004, 02:35:30 AM EDT
Scheme to the rescue
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ChrisR)
- May 7, 2004, 10:27:59 AM EDT
Care to offer an example where there is some ambiguity?
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ben_tilly)
- (20)
- May 7, 2004, 10:39:07 AM EDT
Allowed in CLOS but not in Scheme
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ChrisR)
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- May 7, 2004, 10:46:36 AM EDT
Care to show me the example?
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ben_tilly)
- (15)
- May 7, 2004, 11:53:03 AM EDT
Lisp is a family of languages
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ChrisR)
- (14)
- May 7, 2004, 12:35:17 PM EDT
Rethinking, reloading. :-)
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ChrisR)
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- May 7, 2004, 01:02:43 PM EDT
Thanks for the confirmation
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ben_tilly)
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- May 7, 2004, 02:24:26 PM EDT
Special forms
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ChrisR)
- May 7, 2004, 02:29:59 PM EDT
just trying to learn
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tablizer)
- (10)
- May 7, 2004, 03:32:51 PM EDT
As far as I understand
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ChrisR)
- (9)
- May 7, 2004, 03:59:52 PM EDT
More on s-expressions
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ChrisR)
- May 7, 2004, 08:17:02 PM EDT
Downsides of flexibility
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tablizer)
- (7)
- May 10, 2004, 03:25:50 PM EDT
Less flexible = good?
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ChrisR)
- (6)
- May 10, 2004, 04:34:10 PM EDT
Dejavu
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FuManChu)
- (2)
- May 11, 2004, 12:44:10 PM EDT
I like big apps and I can not lie.
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ChrisR)
- May 11, 2004, 04:19:46 PM EDT
Language de jour
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ChrisR)
- May 11, 2004, 04:26:02 PM EDT
Standards versus flexibility
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tablizer)
- (2)
- May 11, 2004, 02:34:04 PM EDT
One of the problem is that by the time a comprehensive...
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ChrisR)
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- May 11, 2004, 03:10:56 PM EDT
You are probably right, but I'll be long retired by then
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tablizer)
- May 11, 2004, 06:57:45 PM EDT
A "Let" statement that sets a bunch of variables
-NT
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tablizer)
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- May 7, 2004, 03:20:20 PM EDT
Ah, that is because let is a special form
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ben_tilly)
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- May 7, 2004, 05:11:37 PM EDT
Not to get in too deep...
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ChrisR)
- May 7, 2004, 05:31:05 PM EDT
OT: Why is this in Scripting?
-NT
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pwhysall)
- (2)
- May 8, 2004, 12:27:54 AM EDT
oh oh, I smell another fight over definition of "scripting"
-NT
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tablizer)
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- May 9, 2004, 02:19:52 AM EDT
:-)
-NT
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pwhysall)
- May 9, 2004, 03:22:17 AM EDT
Remember, people in 1900 didn't know what an atom was. They didn't know its structure.
They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS... None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn't know what you are talking about.
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