(symbols) inside a function

2012-01-31 Thread Imran Rafique
Alex, Tomas, Axel (and all other picolisp coders out there), Another newbie question here, this time using (symbols) inside a function. The intention behind the code (see below) is pretty simple. (mk) will create a new namespace (well, a new symbol table), and (dset) should set a variable in a

Re: (symbols) inside a function

2012-01-31 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Imran, > The intention behind the code (see below) is pretty simple. (mk) will > create a new namespace (well, a new symbol table), and (dset) should > set a variable in a specified namespace. For one thing, you can easily set a variable in another namespace with: (setq Dc~k1 123) This wo

Re: (symbols) inside a function

2012-02-01 Thread Imran Rafique
Thanks for responding Alex. As you know, I'm just trying out picolisp in my spare time (hence my slow responses on this list, sorry about that). To put some context to these questions, I thought that using seperate namespaces to simulate a key/value dictionary/hash-table would be a nice idea to pl

Re: (symbols) inside a function

2012-02-01 Thread José Romero
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:53:11 -0800 Imran Rafique wrote: > Thanks for responding Alex. > > As you know, I'm just trying out picolisp in my spare time (hence my > slow responses on this list, sorry about that). To put some context > to these questions, I thought that using seperate namespaces to >

Re: (symbols) inside a function

2012-02-01 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Imran, > As you know, I'm just trying out picolisp in my spare time (hence my slow > responses on this list, sorry about that). To put some context to these That's perfect. No hurry :) I also want to spend more time concentrating on project work. > questions, I thought that using seperate n

Re: (symbols) inside a function

2012-02-23 Thread Imran Rafique
Jose & Alex, Please excuse my rudeness in not replying sooner (on business, then Yosemite trip). Thanks for the pointers on idx trees. -- Regards,        Imran Rafique 2012/2/1 José Romero : > Why not use a 'idx tree then? http://software-lab.de/doc/refI.html#idx > >