On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 07:09:24PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote:
> > prin has side-effect.
>
> Nonsense! 'prin' *is* the only and desired effect.
> ...
> This discussion is useless.
Now I think I understand why.
Tomas misunderstood my initial mail. He did not attend PilCon, and seems to
believe we discussed implementation strategies for libraries.
This was not the case.
I talked about binding mechanisms in FEXPRs. The two functions '<p>' and '<div>'
are minimal printing abstractions. An expression like
(prin "<p>" "Text" "</p>")
can be abstracted as
(de <p> Prg
(prin "<p>")
(run Prg)
(prin "</p>") )
(<p> (prin "Text"))
and this was used then in nested calls to demonstrate the behavior of 'Prg's.
In a digression, the question about 'pack'ing strings came up, and I felt I had
not fully answered the question, so I clarified it in the above mail.
☺/ A!ex
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