Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?
Hi List, I have a rather strange problem: I want to (from within Emacs) ,-- | (setq X (list string1 ... string200)) `-- and it seems PicoLisp just freezes - no error messages, but no output either, and the process seems to be frozen. Now when I split the list into , | (setq Y (list string1 ... string100)) | (setq Z (list string101 ... string200)) ` both evaluations work, and quite fast. I could make Y even smaller and Z bigger - until a certain limit (Y = 25, Z = ca. 180 or so), and both assignments work just fine. But when I add both parts together, PicoLisp freezes again when assigning X. Is there something like an upper limit for how many Strings can be in a list in PicoLisp? Or might that be Emacs related? 200 or 300 are not really that big numbers ... -- cheers, Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?
Hi Thorsten, Is there something like an upper limit for how many Strings can be in a list in PicoLisp? Or might that be Emacs related? No, there is no limit. Neither to the length of the command line (if you use the built-in line editor). How did you invoke PicoLisp? Does this also happen if you invoke just as $ pil + i.e. PicoLisp alone, without Emacs? Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?
Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de writes: Hi Alex, Is there something like an upper limit for how many Strings can be in a list in PicoLisp? Or might that be Emacs related? No, there is no limit. Neither to the length of the command line (if you use the built-in line editor). How did you invoke PicoLisp? Does this also happen if you invoke just as $ pil + i.e. PicoLisp alone, without Emacs? No, that works, although there are is someting strange happening too: some of the strings in the list are replaces by NIL, and it seems as if the '\' that signals a linebreak in an Emacs buffer is somehow misinterpreted as an escaping backslash , | wiki/Binary_strings wiki/Bitmap | wiki/Bitmap/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm | wiki/Bitmap/B%C3%A9zier_curves/Cubic | wiki/Bitmap/B%C3%A9zier_curves/Quadratic wiki/Bitmap/Flood_fill | wiki/Bitmap/Histogram wiki/Bitmap/Midpoint_circle_algorithm | wiki/Bitmap/PPM_conversion_through_a_pipe | wiki/Bitmap/Read_a_PPM_file | wiki/Bitmap/Read_an_image_through_a_pipe | wiki/Bitmap/Write_a_PPM_file wiki/Bitwise_IO | wiki/Bitwise_operations wiki/Boolean_values wiki/Box_the_compass | wiki/Break_OO_privacy wiki/Brownian_tree wiki/Bulls_and_cows | wiki/Bulls_and_cows/Player wiki/Caesar_cipher wiki/Calendar | wiki/Calendar_-_for_%22real%22_programmers | wiki/Call_a_foreign-language_function wiki/Call_a_function | wiki/Call_a_function_in_a_shared_library wiki/Call_an_object_method | wiki/Case-sensitivity_of_identifiers wiki/Catalan_numbers | wiki/Character_codes wiki/Character_matching wiki/Chat_server | wiki/Checkpoint_synchronization wiki/Chess_player | wiki/Chess_player/PicoLisp ` becomes ,-- | wiki/Binary_strings wiki/Bitmap | wiki/Bitmap/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm\ NIL NIL NIL | NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL | NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL | NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL | \wiki/Chat_server wiki/Checkpoint_synchronization | wiki/Chess_player wiki/Chess_player/PicoLisp `-- So it looks more like an Emacs (PicoLisp mode) related problem. -- cheers, Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?
Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de writes: Hi Alex, You said that you call it as (setq X (list string1 ... string200)) Note that this evaluates the transient symbols string1 etc., so if one of them has a value NIL (or anything else), it will be included in the list. What you actually want to do is (setq X '(string1 ... string200)) yes, definitely... thanks -- cheers, Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
