Re: chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-03 Thread Elf

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Shawn Rutledge wrote:


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Graham Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Fortunately, Chicken Literary and his friends visited the fox, Henry
 Baker, who reminded them that their stacks are GC'd frequently. All
 was well again in Chicken Literary Land!

 But when he added that function-calls never return, Chicken Literary
 and friends lapsed into an existential stupor. And Henry the Fox ate
 them.


You handled the continuation very well, congratulations.  Not a very
happy ending though.  After (eat ...) I suppose the return value is
undefined, isn't it...



nah, its not undefined.  there is no return value, remember?  and the 
continuation is clearly 'eat -> burp -> digest'


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Re: chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-03 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Graham Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Fortunately, Chicken Literary and his friends visited the fox, Henry
>  Baker, who reminded them that their stacks are GC'd frequently. All
>  was well again in Chicken Literary Land!
>
>  But when he added that function-calls never return, Chicken Literary
>  and friends lapsed into an existential stupor. And Henry the Fox ate
>  them.

You handled the continuation very well, congratulations.  Not a very
happy ending though.  After (eat ...) I suppose the return value is
undefined, isn't it...


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Re: chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-03 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chicken Literary is all in a panic that the stacks are falling.

lol!

Fortunately, Chicken Literary and his friends visited the fox, Henry
Baker, who reminded them that their stacks are GC'd frequently. All
was well again in Chicken Literary Land!

But when he added that function-calls never return, Chicken Literary
and friends lapsed into an existential stupor. And Henry the Fox ate
them.

G


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Re: chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-03 Thread Shawn Rutledge
Chicken Literary is all in a panic that the stacks are falling.


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chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-02 Thread Elf

On Sun, 1 Mar 2008, Graham Fawcett wrote:


On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


 heh, thats the longest response ive ever gotten to a random selection from
 the tao of programming.  cool :)


Yes. Beautiful work there, John.

Graham

Nice, nice, very nice,
Nice, nice, very nice,
Nice, nice, very nice,
So many different hackers in the same device.

   --  "The Book of Bokonon" for Unix
   (work in progress ;-)



Hehehe...

The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon for Unix, or What Can A Thoughtful Man Hope For
Computing on Earth, Given The Experience Of The Past Nine Decades? -

Almost nothing.


-elf
see the elf?  see the cradle?


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