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During the assoc discussion I came across a problem I'm sure I knew how to solve a year or two ago, but I can't figure out anymore. I know I'll only have assoc lists of the form ((a (1 2)) (b (3 4)) ...) I want to write a function like (push-assoc key value assoc-lst) The only way I could get it to ...

I'm of the opinion that char should move from strings to integers and not introduce nil. I think the empty string is a valid special case where 0 should be returned. That being said I'm ok with char returning errors if the offset is out of bounds. I'd argue that any argument to the offset for an emp...

In nl-string.c change line 219 from offset = adjustNegativeIndex(offset, len); to if ((offset != 0) || (len > 0)) offset = adjustNegativeIndex(offset, len); This will produce the following behavior: newLISP v.9.3.8 on OSX IPv4 UTF-8, execute 'newlisp -h' for more info. > (char "") 0 > (char "" 0) 0 ...

Good point on the apply consequence. Imagine you have a scheduled report to run at 7am every day. Since you're in a timezone that does daylight savings for a portion of the year the report should run at 7am GMT and for another portion at 8am GMT. But as a user, I don't care about any of that - I wan...

> (date (date-value) 0 "%Y %m %d %H %M %S") "2008 03 30 12 32 58" > (date (date-value 2008 3 30 12 32 58) 0 "%Y %m %d %H %M %S") "2008 03 30 07 32 58" To me these two functions should return the same value. Lutz - Perhaps you could add another option onto (date-value) syntax: (date-value int-year i...

I'm working on adding some date syntactic sugar for newlisp. Inspired by the ease of use of certain date manipulation in Ruby. During my tests I noticed what i think is an issue in some of the date routines related to offset or possibly daylight savings time. I tried to implement a newlisp version o...

I read through the arc tutorial and am thoroughly unimpressed. Most of the stuff I like newLISP already has, and there's no mention of any integrated web stuff (like net-* or *-url). The one interesting feature I thought might be useful to put in newLISP is some version of Arc's uniq macro functiona...

cormullion wrote:a little too short

I also noticed that in 9.2.5 or higher I can make it even shorter! :)

Good point Lutz. I should have provided a better example. Here's the basic case > (natural-sort '("a10" "a2" "a1" "a14")) ("a1" "a2" "a10" "a14") > (sort '("a10" "a2" "a1" "a14")) ("a1" "a10" "a14" "a2") and the embedded case > (natural-sort '("i30z" "i3n" "i20n" "i18z")) ("i3n" "i18z" "i20n" "i30z"...

Although not a complex piece of code, the following is quite useful when you have to sort lists the way most real people think of sorting. (define (natural-key s) (set 'strs (parse s "[0-9]+" 0)) (set 'nums (find-all "[0-9]+" s)) (if nums (set 'nums (map int nums)) (set 'nums '())) (filter if (flat ...

http://newlisp-on-noodles.org/wiki/images/3/3e/Nettlepasta.jpg I just released a module for working with the nettle cryptographic library. http://newlisp-on-noodles.org/wiki/index.php/Nettles Enjoy! PS - I haven't been able to get it to work on Mac OS X. Nettle is in Fink but there's no dylib. If a...

johnd and I have decided to publicly release the newLISP on Noodles wiki

http://www.newlisp-on-noodles.org

In a nutshell, we want Noodles to be the "Ruby on Rails" of newLISP.

Right now we've got a few place holders for library and module development and some tips 'n' tricks.

Enjoy.

Gord

This will push every element in b onto a.

Can someone explain to me why the following code does not sleep 5 seconds? I have a hunch that a signal from the forked child invalidates the sleep - but I have no proof. (define (SleepMe x) (println "Starting...") (fork (dotimes (y 10) (println y))) (sleep (* x 1000)) (println "Why do you not sleep...