On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi Christophe,
Hi Alex. > Hmm, so is this the same as the localization does in PicoLisp? Quite the same, except that we don't have a list of all messages to translate. Any transient, even an unexpected one, should «spontaneously» have its value transformed by a function when retrieved. >> I note that this transient thing is VERY powerful. Alex, could you >> provide us with some historical hindsight about transient syms? Do >> they exist in other languages? Are they your brainchildren? > > Transient symbols are just normal symbols, except that they have a > file-local scope, and happen to look lexically like strings in other > languages. That's all. My question was about «look lexically like strings in other languages». Do some other Lisp have this king of mechanism? chri -- http://profgra.org/lycee/ (site pro) http://delicious.com/profgraorg (liens, favoris) https://twitter.com/profgraorg http://microalg.info -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
