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Ah! Bad me for not RTFM-ing!! 'silent' will do quite nicely. Thanks!

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On page 40 in bullet list underneath Building Lists, "cons prepends an element to a list or make a list" should be "...makes a list".

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Page 270, last line of the displayed code, RREPLACE_ONCE should be REPLACE_ONCE.

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Normally when I'm coding I depend on the bouncing cursor to tell me which expression I'm closing up, but I noticed that the cursor will match lines that have been commented out. I suspect that this is not intended?

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Of course. So could we have one--- pretty please?

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In CL and scheme empty version of values and void are used to indicate nothing is returned.
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Is there a newLISP equivalent? If not could there be?

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Under Windows XP with the latest code, ^Z, ^V, ^X don't seem to set the 'this file has changed flag'.

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I like your rule of "macros should be used only if one cannot use functions". I think that this is where programmers coming from other languages and more C/C++ style 'macros' possibly get confused. They are thinking of text replacement where as lisp is more like language replacement.


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Are there advantages/dis-advantages to implementing simple one-liners as macros? For instance versus the macro definition.

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I know you are working (or were) on PDF files for the new documentation. Could you include the doc on the GUI as well?

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Excellent! Can't have too much documentation about a computer language— more is always better. Cormullion, a job well done, thank you!

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While I suppose you could go through the Win32 API, here is all you really need: INT 21 Function 5701h:SET FILE'S LAST-WRITTEN DATE AND TIME AX = 5701h BX = file handle CX = new time DX = new date Return: CF clear if successful CF set on error AX = error code (01h,06h) Bitfields for file time: Bit(s...

aron, Actually I'd do both--- first acquire a working 'touch'. The one you point to is a good one, as are the rest of their Unix tools; get them all, you will need them sooner or later. Second, see if newLISP can solve your problem by trying the other suggestions made here. It will teach you more ab...

HPW, If you are going to blame setq on someone, that would be David Betz author of the Lisp implementation that John Walker used to provide an embedded language. That said, I believe that setq is older than that--- I think(could certainly be wrong) that Soft Warehouse's muLisp had a setq which if so...

Windows doesn't come with 'touch'--- but it is widely available on the net. I've never thought about it since I've always had it in my toolkit as a developer. It is trivial to write. Seems to me that in the long ago days one came with the Borland dev kits. Not having it is sort of like not having gr...

I've no clue of how to do it in newLisp, but since the 'touch' utility does it all of the time, I don't think you would have to 'rewrite' the OS...

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One of the best plugins for FireFox is Firebug. I'd be interested to know if it would have found the missing character?

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Lutz,

Much thanks for the new option on the install...

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Each time I install a new version, the software offers to add newLISP to the path. Would it actually duplicate the original addition if I leave this checked? On a similar note, could creating a shortcut be and option and not forced?

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As long as I have multiple processor boxes and do not have the ability to benefit from them, I'm hardly likely to enjoy second class citizen ship. Regards date and time parsing, precisely what is the problem--- lack of an existing library? Given that there is very little if anything about time and d...

Given the number of things not implemented for windows I think it is about time that you abandoned the platform.

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Ah but to do it well, the thing to do would be to add libmpfr and libmpc to the gmp module. This would give us fast unlimited(memory limit) complex math.

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The work around for ampersand escapes that I've found useful is to use the alternate &#; form. --hsm

Great blog post. Finally something said that doesn't say it at the expense of something else. I get so tired of juvenile posts about the 'one true language'! There is no such thing and it is nice to see something celebrate what were are all ultimately in the game for— fun, what most call 'programmin...

I got here from a URL on Hacker News. I've been quite happy ever since. And while I'm implementing my current project(porting my CPAN PGN: modules) in both newLisp and common lisp(clisp via slime and emacs) and will eventually get around to scheme, ruby and python, I've got to tell you that newLisp ...