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I think the profiler uses the underscores in situations when it needs to iterate over the keys.

I don't remember. It uses the new dictionary syntax, I know that. What is the error you are getting?

Wonderful! Thanks, Lutz. Couple of things: 1. Can we return references from our own functions? (define (my-first lst) (expand '(lst 0) 'lst)) 2. Lookup should accept the standard index syntax: (set 'foo '((a 1) (b 2) (c ((a 2) (b 3))))) (assoc (foo 'c 'b)) ; => (b 3) (lookup (foo 'c 'b)) ; => 3 As o...

Lutz,

When can we expect a dev release? Also, will we be able to create our own reference functions by returning a list reference expression? I.e.:

Will that be released anytime soon? I like setf :)

For math and graphics, PPCs should be faster.

You should make it check the home directory first. If it finds it, it then stops. If it does not, it goes for the global, but only if there is nothing in the home directory.

Comma-variables are convention, not spec.

Well, look at the numbers. It's making arrays of 512 * 10000 elements. Run it with smaller sizes and multiply the results. The array is used for constant access speeds. The same with the other languages. Xytroxon - it ran consistently at 20-21 seconds on my 2.5 ghz quad-core ppc with 4 gigs of ram.

I have been playing with some of the shootout functions and trying to get decent results with newlisp. Here is the fastest implementation I have so far for the sieve of eratosthenes: (define (sieve size , flags total) (set 'flags (array (+ size 1)) 'total 0) (for (i 2 (- size 1)) (when (not (flags i...

Oh, yeah :)

That will make your code confusing to others who expect define to define a new function. It's generally best for a programmer not to make up conventions when writing code. You never when *you* will be person who has to update it.

Let does not care what to do. It automatically quotes the symbol and evaluates the expression it points to. (let ((foo 10))) is the equivalent of:
Re the last example -

Yes, by writing your own filesystem :)

No, it cannot know what to do. As I said, you can point a symbol to a symbol, so that using set evaluates the first symbol and sets the second: (set 'a 'b) (set a 10) ;; b => 10 ;; a => 'b However, what if 'a already contains something else? What if it was previously used to store an expression, lik...

If you don't use a quote, set attempts to evaluate the symbol (meaning you can set one symbol to point to another and set the second symbol using the first symbol). To skip the quote, use setq (short for set-quote).

Take a look at my util.lsp module on Artful Code. It includes a macro called "with-slots". If you write your classes to use an association list for their members: (define (Point:Point x y) (list (context) (list (list "x" x) (list "y" y)))) Then, you can easily access the slots: (set 'point (Point 10...

Yes. See here: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlis ... pip_server. newLISP comes with its own built-in web server. You can save data easily with the 'save function.

Corm - you cannot destructively modify a FOOP object even with a macro. When a method is called, the actual method is not called. The : function is called, which first evaluates the first argument, which is presumed to be a FOOP list. Having done that, it tries to find the method in the context. So:...

I disagree. I've put that side effect to good use in progressive logic. You can set $0 yourself between regexes. And you should always check the return value :)

What are the changes to unify? The changelog wasn't very clear.

I added a new theme with a dark background, updated symbols, etc. 1.0 was a huge update with much better language recognition. Get it here: http://www.artfulcode.net/projects/releases/22/.

Thanks :)

Corm,

You know your site blows out into the comments textarea when veiwed in opera?

Jeff

I know that spawn/sync uses fork etc., but what are the reasons to use one rather than the other? Spawn is more straightforward to use. In order to access the result of something evaluated within a forked process, you must first set up a shared page of ram and a semaphore to control access to it. Y...