[Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-14 Thread Moritz Heidkamp
Hello Chickeneers, find attached a suggested addition to miscmacros: the thrush operator family. Apparently it stems from Raymond Smullyan's book on combinatorial logic "To Mock a Mockingbird", which I haven't read (yet). I've first learned about it through Clojure and have found it quite nice for

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-14 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
On Feb 14 2012, Moritz Heidkamp wrote: Hello Chickeneers, find attached a suggested addition to miscmacros: the thrush operator family. Apparently it stems from Raymond Smullyan's book on combinatorial logic "To Mock a Mockingbird", which I haven't read (yet). I've first learned about it throug

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-14 Thread Evan Hanson
On 02/14/12 at 10:35pm, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: > I rather loved to think instead of "inserting the (*single*) > value of the expression into the next expression" of something > along the lines of physical wires: A classic, along those lines: http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/ Cheers, Evan

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-14 Thread Moritz Heidkamp
Hi Jörg, Jörg F. Wittenberger writes: > I rather loved to think instead of "inserting the (*single*) > value of the expression into the next expression" of something > along the lines of physical wires: > connect (pass) all the result(s) of the first expression into the next > (which would then n

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-15 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
On Feb 15 2012, Moritz Heidkamp wrote: Hi Jörg, Jörg F. Wittenberger writes: I rather loved to think instead of "inserting the (*single*) value of the expression into the next expression" of something along the lines of physical wires: connect (pass) all the result(s) of the first expression

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-19 Thread Moritz Heidkamp
Moritz Heidkamp writes: > find attached a suggested addition to miscmacros Attached a syntax-rules based implementation which is much easier to grok. I am leaning towards putting those into a separate egg now though. Index: miscmacros.scm

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-20 Thread Felix
From: Moritz Heidkamp Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:18:11 +0100 > Moritz Heidkamp writes: > >> find attached a suggested addition to miscmacros > > Attached a syntax-rules based implementation which is much easier to > grok.

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Thrush operator

2012-02-23 Thread Moritz Heidkamp
Felix writes: > I think that's a good idea. You could also add the "doto" operator > from the miscmacros there, since I don't think it fits well into > the set of macros provided by miscmacros. Alright, it's done, meet http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/clojurian :-) I took the liberty to rewrite