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2 points by absz 5904 days ago | link | parent

It occurs to me that there's another problem with this code: your use of t as a variable name. This is outright forbidden globally:

  arc> (= t (table))
  Error: "Can't rebind t"
. Though it does work locally, it is nevertheless inadvisable: t is the global "true" value (equivalent to 't). It's probably better to use tb as the name for your table.

Glad to be of assistance.



2 points by sacado 5904 days ago | link

And don't ever use tab, particularily for a table : it is a macro's name so it will get you in trouble.

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1 point by absz 5904 days ago | link

Or we could fix that part of the language ;)

Seriously, that's one of my biggest standing irritations. If I have some time, I might look at fixing that in the Anarki, actually.

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2 points by zhtw 5904 days ago | link

I also had a problem with tab and also think that it should be fixed.

Btw what do I need to load to get the base language without any web stuff. Are there an official "base" part? As.scm loads all the libraries for me. Do I need to load arc.arc only to get the base language.

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1 point by absz 5903 days ago | link

Yes, that would be the way to do it, but I don't know a simple way to load only arc.arc.

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