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1 point by oditogre 5934 days ago | link | parent

Other notes as I'm reading along:

1. It would be nice if you could change it to html instead of txt so footnotes (and possibly references to other sections, if you're really ambitious) can be links so it's easier to skip around (using 'open in new tab') without losing your place. It would also be useful for fixing jgrahamc's 2nd issue.

2. I'm having a bit of trouble getting the do / when section (my only prior experience with lisp is scanning some PCL way back when reddit was young - I use lisp-in-a-box as a calculator a lot when playing Eve Online, but that's not really useful experience here). If I'm understanding it correctly, it seems accurate to say that (if a b) is valid and will return b when a is true and do nothing otherwise. Is that right?

I think what I'm getting hung up on is that you talk about 'if' with 3 arguments, then with more than 3 arguments, then you explain 'do', and then when you combine them back together it looks like you're using 'if' with 2 arguments, with the 'do' part being, in it's entirety, the second argument...but otherwise you never address a plain old 'if' with 2 arguments.



3 points by pg 5934 days ago | link

Yes, (if (is 1 2) 'a) returns nil.

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1 point by oditogre 5934 days ago | link

Thanks. Just finished reading the tutorial and everything else seemed to mostly make sense (for the things not covered by that 'mostly', I suspect it's to do with the lack of descriptive names / real-world-application examples, which is fine; I'm sure it'll fall into place once I install it and actually start playing around a bit. :)

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