Any help advising how I should restructure the parens in order to replace setq with let would really help me to understand how to do it. Thank you in anticipation and sorry if this is a really easy thing to do.
On 31 January 2017 at 16:32, dean <deangwillia...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've inadvertently pressed some send key combo again... > > simple use of let is fine e.g. > (let X 3 > do what ever you want to do with X here without much change of hierachy > ) > > Ln doesn't fit this usage pattern and to "let" it be something at the top > seems somewhat artificial because there's an if statement deciding whether > to change it's supplied value or not. > > > > On 31 January 2017 at 16:29, dean <deangwillia...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oops acccidentally sent before I finished...Sorry! >> >> I was going to say the examples I've seen tend to be.... >> (let X 3 >> >> >> >> >> >> (dm ln_completes> (Ln Ln_no) >> (let (Ln Ln Res 0) >> (if (gt0 (: first_ln_no)) >> (let Ln (pack " " Ln))) >> (if (<> (: new_buf) NIL) >> (=: buf (: new_buf)) >> (=: buf (: hdngs))) >> (if (member Ln (: buf)) >> (prog >> (if (gt0 (: first_ln_no)) >> (let Res (: first_ln_no)) >> (let Res Ln_no)) >> (reset> This) >> (let Res Res)) >> (prog #not a member >> (=: new_buf (fltr_mtchng_hdng_rmndrs Ln)) >> (if (<> (: new_buf) NIL) >> (if (=0 (: first_ln_no)) >> (=: first_ln_no Ln_no)) >> (reset> This)) >> (let Res 0))))) >> >> On 31 January 2017 at 16:27, dean <deangwillia...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Each one of the "let"s in the following method WAS a setq. All I did was >>> wrap the existing body with parens and assign Ln and Res with "let" but it >>> doesn't work. The examples I've seen tend to be like this... >>> (let X 3 >>> >>> ) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ) >>> >>> >>> On 30 January 2017 at 16:19, dean <deangwillia...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Alex >>>> Yes that worked great preceded by a test....i.e. whizzing through all >>>> file lines in the input file until almost the 4000th which triggered >>>> reporting on the method of interests's input and output. Thank you very >>>> much for the advice. >>>> Best Regards >>>> Dean >>>> >>>> On 30 January 2017 at 11:07, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Dean, >>>>> >>>>> > trace operates in debug mode but again am not exactly sure how to >>>>> ensure >>>>> > that I am in debug mode on a method (rather than a function which is >>>>> just >>>>> > (debug 'Fn) at that point. >>>>> > I have tried but get can't trace. >>>>> >>>>> While (trace 'foo) traces a function, (trace 'meth> '+Class) traces a >>>>> method. >>>>> >>>>> ♪♫ Alex >>>>> -- >>>>> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >