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joakim |
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Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ? |
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Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:18:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
PJ Weisberg <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Fren Zeee <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I am only satisfied with first part. There are more challenging questions
>> still there. Please read the two or three of my posts before you entered the
>> conversation.
>
> I think your other question was, "What was Thien-Thi talking about
> when he said 'less piecewise-constructive and more table-oriented'?
>
> Here's my guess. Keeping in mind that I have no idea what you're
> trying to accomplish, I would suggest that instead of having functions
> like find-my-marker-GOLD, find-my-marker-SILVER, and the like, you
> just start out the file with something like:
>
> GOLD 1000
> SILVER 5000
> COPPER 28000
> CHEESEBURGERS 2
> END
>
> And then read those line-by-line to construct your alist or whatever.
I also fail to comprehend what this thread is about, but could this
maybe prove useful?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
Lisp data and code look alike. The lisp data structure is convenient at
every level of the language. Lisp as a dataformat on disk is thus also
convenient.
--
Joakim Verona
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, (continued)
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/07
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/07
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Chad Brown, 2010/12/07
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/07
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/07
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Chong Yidong, 2010/12/08
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/08
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/08
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/10
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, PJ Weisberg, 2010/12/10
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?,
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- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/10
- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/10
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- Re: Fwd: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/12
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Miles Bader, 2010/12/12
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/13
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/13
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Jay Belanger, 2010/12/13
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, David Kastrup, 2010/12/13
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/13
- Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?, Fren Zeee, 2010/12/13