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May be if you replace (println k) with (println “=====>” k), you can better follow the debug behavior Indeed I thought about this possibilty and did something like that. It seems I didn't put enough dashes in my println. fexprs are functions, so I would argue: the behavior is expected. args should ...

Consider this dumbed-down version of do-until: (module "macro.lsp") (define-macro (DO-UNTIL test B) (do-while (not (eval test)) (eval B))) (macro (DO-UNTIL* T B) (do-while (not T) B)) (println "test 1") (define (foo k) (DO-UNTIL (<= k 0) (begin (println k) (dec k)))) (foo 3) (println "test 2") (defi...

Thanks. (set 'GA "gappw32.dll") (struct 'Rect "int" "int" "int" "int") (import GA "app_new_app" "void*" "int" "void*") (import GA "app_new_window" "void*" "void*" "Rect" "char*" "long") (import GA "app_main_loop" "void" "void*") (import GA "app_show_window" "void" "void*") (import GA "app_new_label"...

I'd like to use this nice little GUI library: http://enchantia.com/software/graphapp/ The widget set is not as full featured as other libraries but it's good enough for simple user interfaces. Plus it fits in a single 700K DLL and is portable. The problem is that it passes and returns one of its maj...

This Jeff Read on the thread gives us a hard time. Unfortunately, it's not the right place for a discussion about newLisp. It seems to me he makes some valid points, but what he misses is that it's all about compromises. Yes, ORO and other features of newLisp bring some limitations, but also carry s...

This is a property named stability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_a ... #Stability), which depends on the sorting algorithm.

I started to do something along these lines. The technique is similar to the one used by xytroxon, except the tags generate a tree of strings. Then a "render" procedure walks the tree and spit it out. I don't have the code because it's on my PC atm. For tag attributes, after various attempts, I came...

Ok my bad.

The F in FOOP When you do: > (new Class 'Person) Person > (Person "JohnDoe") (Person "JohnDoe") > The statement (Person "JohnDoe") returns the same as an object. The object is the functional statement to create itself. The constructor functor Person is also the class id. I'm sorry but it makes litt...

What is DUMB about (openFile sourceFile)? It seems so natural to me. Simply that one "visually" repeats that one deals with a file. There are minor implications too: more typing, and on systems that manage a shared pool of strings "openFile" being unique, it takes its own space; whereas if it's jus...

I think the real benefit of the features of what is called FOOP is the ability to overload functions. It always feel a little dumb to me to have to write e.g. (openFile sourceFile); FOOP features allow for writing (:open sourceFile) and (:open sourceWindow) and this is great. That said, I don't like...

conan wrote: When you said that, do you mean it is possible to build a debugger which can point to the proper line of code ?

One can write an interpreter of newlisp in newlisp itself. It could load the file and keep track of the line numbers.

I second the suggestion of adding line numbers to error messages. The debugger could also use some improvements. I am an embedded systems programmer, and I'm quite used to debug using only printf, but the lack of support from Newlisp in this area makes things more difficult than it should be. Since ...

I think i must have it to develop a real 3D game, not just a proof of concept. You have to be aware that Newlisp is a scripting language. Like most of the scripting languages it is likely to be too slow to perform directly 3D, real time rendering. Rather, you should consider picking up an existing,...

I think that trying to be more popular requires a strategy rather than 'stuff' * lower the barrier of entry helps with retaining people who "heard about that newLisp thing" and give it a try. This means better documentation, better tutorials, community management (consider you're ok with that when y...

I'd like to use Newlisp on system that runs uClinux, which does not support shared libraries. I also would like to use some C++ libraries. My first idea was to hack a bit Newlisp so that one could relatively easily add "foreign" functions to the list of primitives functions. But another difficulty i...

One may easily connect to IRC from a browser. There's Firefox' Chatzilla extension for instance. There's also the Opera browser which has a built-in IRC client (among other interesting things).

I recently came to newLisp thanks to this blogpost (via Reddit). Kazimir's blog (in particular its answer to the comments of some diehard Lisper) is indeed convincing (despite of the "I-killz-ur-Iz" theme :-) I'm an embedded systems C/C++ developer in my day job. In my hobby time, I implemented a Fo...