Re: Goo Nitpicks

[Jonathan Hseu <vomjom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:41:11PM -0400, Jonathan Bachrach wrote:
> 
> actually, what i had in mind which is very much like dylan and eulisp
> is the ability to do selective imports:  
> 
>   (use (each goo/math $pi))
> 
> with prefixing
> 
>   (use (prefix goo/math math/))
> 
> and combined
> 
>   (use (prefix (each goo/math $pi) math/))

I like.

> 
> i would propose 
> 
>   (take x n) == (sub x 0 n) == x[0:n]
> 
> and 
> 
>   (drop x n) == (sub x n (len x)) == x[n:]

This is good too.  Perhaps a keyword variable that allows negative
numbers later on would be better than making sub* and such.

Could you guys please consider the patches for bugs 8 and 9?
9 is pretty serious.  I don't care what the environment variable is
called in 8.

Thanks.

Some more nitpicks:
Could we have a way to get the return value of the last evaluated
expression?

CMUCL's *, **, and *** work well IMO (well, maybe a different character,
because * is a generic)

Also, an evil bug (should I report to BTS?):
goo/user 0<= (dc <testa> (<any>))
goo/user 0=> #f
goo/user 0<= (dp asdf (<testa> => <int>) 5)
goo/user 0=> #{Prop #{Gen asdf (<any>)}}
goo/user 0<= (dc <testb> (<testa>))
goo/user 0=> #f
goo/user 0<= (dp asdf (<testb> => <int>) 6)
goo/user 0=> #{Prop #{Gen asdf (<any>)}}
goo/user 0<= (dv my-var (new <testb>))
goo/user 0=> #f
goo/user 0<= my-var
goo/user 0=> #{<testb> asdf: 5 asdf: 5}
goo/user 0<= (asdf my-var)
goo/user 0=> 5

I swear I had more... oh well, I guess I'll just post again when I
remember :)

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