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That does it, you're right
Where do you get your time from ? Are your days -as ours- 24-h long ?

(dotimes (x 1000) (print-pretty '(thanks again)))

I personally prefer that no breaklines are introduced without my control. You see, if I print a datase to a file one register a line, then when I read the file with read-line, I'm sure I get a whole register, otherwise its awkward. Maybe you're right that it should be left as an option to break line...

Just two more quests (by now !): 1. Is it possible to use optional arguments in functions, other than through 'define-macro' ? I dont quite get it clear from the manual. It looks fine anyway, since a variable-number-of-args function is certainly a strange concept itself... not very 'mathematical' to...

The correct code is: (set 'people '((p1 (name (john macy)) (age 45) (hobbies fishing reading jogging)) (p2 (name (mary dickens)) (age 27) (hobbies knitting dancing watching-tv)) (p3 (name (paul donkey)) (age 18) (hobbies kicking eating)))) (define (insert value field-id register-id relation , regist...

I have a database organised as association lists (relations) of registers, one for each individual, and each register itself contains an association list of pairs <field value>. So, for example, it would be: (set 'people '(p1 (name (john macy)) (age 45) (hobbies fishing reading jogging)) (p2 (name (...

When calling (gammai n m) with n=0 (not the right thing to do, but can happen) my computer crashes badly. I must make a hard reset. OS: Windows XP. Pentium III.
Maybe some error trapping would do well.

And not necessary to open a new thread each time !
You can delete this thread ;-)

Of course, you parse the string and map 'symbol onto it:

(map symbol (parse "hi how are you")) -> (hi how are you )

Apologies
The parsing capabilities of Newlisp do much of the work, and so much simpler .

I Common Lisp you can transform a string into a list of atoms, such as: "hi how are you" -> (hi how are you). You just 'read-input-from-string' the original string and cons the atoms into a list. For instance, see (read-sentence) in Winston 3rd ed., p. 426. How to do this in Newlisp ? I imagine this...

How can you do reading of regular Lisp expressions, in the way that CL does it with (read) ? Especially to read from files, its useful to be able to read a whole expression -enclosed in parentheses-. Maybe I've missed it somewhere ? In fact, load must use such a function, so it cannot be difficult. ...