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1 point by lark 4239 days ago | link | parent

I see the following:

  arc> ([(prn "You entered " _)] 34)
  You entered 34
  Error: "car: expects argument of type <pair>; given ()"
That's good investigation. Note the work described in this thread uses Arc 3.1, not Anarki.

Btw do you mean there's something wrong with defop, or that the example I wrote is incorrect? I had gotten that example from: http://arcfn.com/doc/srv.html



3 points by rocketnia 4239 days ago | link

The examples at arcfn say [do (prn ...) ...] and [w/link (pr ...) ...]. At some point you changed one of these to [ (prn ...)] for your example.

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1 point by lark 4238 days ago | link

Thanks. I understand one should write:

  [do (prn "...")]
I support one shouldn't. The do should be implicit.

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2 points by Pauan 4238 days ago | link

The reason it does that is so that things like [+ _ 1] work. Under your suggestion, you would have to write [(+ _ 1)] which looks ugly.

Rather than using [(prn ...)] you can just use [prn ...]

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Incidentally, using Arc/Nu, it's easy to make the square brackets behave the way you want them to:

  (mac square-brackets args
    `(fn (_) (do ,@args)))
I believe Anarki has something similar as well.

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