Re: Stuck at PLEAC example

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 07:21:02 -0700



The first problem is that all your employees have no 'name property. ( get 'name emp1) -> NIL
But emp1 -> "Abel"

But there is something else rotten. I can not spot. But try to get (with 'emp1 (prinl (: name))) running first

Regarding your 'This question: 
 https://software-lab.de/doc/refT.html#This


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Gesendet: 10. Juni 2018 2:20 nachm.
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Hi Alex,

I am now working on the "Arrays" section at "Find First Element that passes a Test".

Your example:
   (with
      (find
         '((This) (== 'engineer (: category)))
         Employees )
      (prinl "Highest paid engineer is: " (: name))  )

This won't work of course, so I created a few things:
   : (setq emp1 "Abel" emp2 "Jones" emp3 "Millner" emp4 "Noles" emp5 "Zaphod")
   -> "Zaphod"

   : (put emp1 'category 'engineer)
   -> engineer

   : (put emp2 'category 'cook)
   -> cook

   : (put emp3 'category 'teacher)
   -> teacher

   : (put emp4 'category 'engineer)
   -> engineer

   : (put emp5 'category 'vicar)
   -> vicar

   : (setq Employees '(emp1 emp2 emp3 emp4 emp5))
   -> (emp1 emp2 emp3 emp4 emp5)

I guessed that this list Employees would be OK to feed 'find';
however, from the ref docs of 'with' I do not grasp how I should get this to work.

Also, the function used by 'find' has a formal parameter named This. Is this the PicoLisp special variable, or just a name for a formal parameter?

Please give a complete example! 

What I experience now is exactly why I think that there should be more and better approachable docs.

I think the reference should either be expanded by more comprehensive examples + explanations, or otherwise I'll try and do that later in the Wiki where I started the new section (with now only the 'de' example).

I feel you, because it is all "in your head", but B2B a.k.a. brain-2-brain is not yet possible, regrettably :)

Seeing all this stuff i am convinced that PicoLisp also could have been named YottaLisp, because of the sheer amount of possibilities hidden below the surface :)

Best,
   Arie

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