Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?

2012-07-23 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
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 proc

Re: Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?

2012-07-23 Thread Alexander Burger
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

Re: Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?

2012-07-23 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger 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 P

Re: Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?

2012-07-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Thorsten, > > 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

Re: Upper limit for list lenght in PicoLisp?

2012-07-23 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger 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 wa