Re: == vs. eq

2003-04-01 Thread Marco Baringer
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, my problem remains. What does the poor generic programmer do > when he needs generic equality!? unfortunetly, no such thing exists. see: http://xrl.us/fdz and http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html although the specifics are common lisp

Re: A6 questions

2003-03-17 Thread Marco Baringer
Chris Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:09 PM, David Storrs wrote: > > > ==QUESTION > > - Page 8 says "In some languages, all methods are multimethods." I > > believe that Java is one of these. Is that right and what are some > > others? (This is really just

Re: labeled if blocks

2002-10-28 Thread Marco Baringer
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 27 Oct 2002, Marco Baringer wrote: > : why not use -> to create a sub which you can return from? > : > : if $foo -> { > : ... > : return if $bar; > : ... > : } > > Except that by the current rule you ca

Re: labeled if blocks

2002-10-27 Thread Marco Baringer
"Steve Canfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will Perl6 have labeled if blocks? Like this: > > BLAH: > if ($foo) { > ... > last BLAH if $bar; > ... > } why not use -> to create a sub which you can return from? if $foo -> { ... return if $bar; ... } this of course

Re: [OT] Power of Lisp macros?

2002-10-25 Thread Marco Baringer
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you define "powerful" as "can do more things," then of course not. > Lisp is implemented in C, and C's macros are certainly not essential [aside: most "major" common lisp implementations (cmucl, sbcl, openmcl, mcl, allegro and lispworks) are all native