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2 points by mec 6097 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc continuation puzzle

I've not a clue why but I got

  11213nil

I figured catching a throw would cancel out and you'd get '123 but apparently I need to go read more on them.

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1 point by mec 6106 days ago | link | parent | on: How the colon syntax could be a lot cooler (and ot...

If you're trying to debug print the value of a variable can't you do:

  arc> (let x 4
         (+ 1 2
            (/ prn.x 3)
            (/ 7 6)))
  4
  11/2

As long as print returns the the value it prints (and it appears to) this should work fine.

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4 points by mec 6107 days ago | link | parent | on: Backquoted Dotted-List Bug (e.g: "`(5 . 6)")in Arc...

Someone in an earlier thread of mine suggested this fix:

  ((pair? x)
   (cons (ac-qq1 level (car x) env) (ac-qq1 level (cdr x) env)))

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2 points by shlomif 6107 days ago | link

Thanks!

I applied the following patch eventually:

{{{{{{{{{ ((pair? x) - (map (lambda (x) (ac-qq1 level x env)) x)) + (let ((t (lambda (f) (ac-qq1 level (f x) env)))) + (cons (t car) (t cdr)))) }}}}}}}}}

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2 points by eds 6107 days ago | link

By the way, what is with the "{{{{{{{{{" and "<<<<<<<<" in your posts? (You can mark text as code by indenting it.)

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3 points by mec 6107 days ago | link

To use the auto code format add 2 newlines and the code indented by two spaces;

  like this

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2 points by shlomif 6107 days ago | link

Hi! Thanks for the tip.

I normally use "{{{" and "<<<<" as delimiteres in a plaintext . But obviously it doesn't work very well here, so I'll keep in mind to use indentation instead.

Thanks again.

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2 points by mec 6108 days ago | link | parent | on: Poll: What do you edit Arc code with ?

DrScheme, but unfortunately I can't figure out how to add it as a language instead of just running it through mzscheme so I don't get any useful syntax highlighting etc.

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3 points by mec 6108 days ago | link | parent | on: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

Lua

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4 points by mec 6109 days ago | link | parent | on: Poll: What do you most want changed/fixed/added in...

For quick prototyping I can see how Lua's tables would be extremely useful. I've been trying to think of a way to combine lisp macros with Lua tables to see how that turns out.

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1 point by mec 6114 days ago | link | parent | on: Anarki Windows Compatibility

I got the snapshot he posted and it won't even load in mzscheme:

  G:\Anarki\arc-wiki>mzscheme -m -f as.scm
  compile: bad yntax; function application is not allowed, because no %app syntax transformer is bound in: (quote nil)

   === context ===
  G:\Anarki\arc-wiki\ac.scm:978:0: aload1

  >

It'll only load in DrScheme but then I get:

  arc> (load "news.arc")
  nil
  arc> (nsv)
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.

  The syntax of the command is incorrect.
 
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.

  The syntax of the command is incorrect.

  load items: Error: "directory-list: could not open \"G:\\Anarki\\arc-wiki\\arc\\news\\story\\\" (The system cannot find the path specified.; errno=3)"
  arc>

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1 point by nex3 6114 days ago | link

Anarki was briefly incompatible with the latest MzScheme. The snapshot may have been made then. The latest revision should be better, though, at least with respect to MzScheme syntax errors.

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2 points by mec 6116 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc2.tar

Same thing here, using windows:

  arc> (nsv)
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.
  The syntax of the command is incorrect.
  load items: Error: "directory-list: could not open \"G:\\MzScheme\\arc2\\arc/news/story/\""
  arc>

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2 points by nex3 6116 days ago | link

I believe Anarki works on Windows, although I wouldn't swear to it. If it doesn't, patches would be appreciated.

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2 points by mec 6116 days ago | link

Forgive my newbness but I've not used git before and don't really have a clue where to start. I did read that you can connect to git repos with other clients (I currently have TortoiseSVN installed) and would love to know how to do that as it would probably be the easier than setting up cygwin and figuring out git. Any help would be appreciated.

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3 points by nex3 6115 days ago | link

I think Cygwin is the official way to use Git on Windows, but there's a MinGW that seems to be very functional (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list).

Once you've got one of those installed, the basic workflow I talked about at http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1387 should work fine.

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3 points by raymyers 6115 days ago | link

I would encourage you to go ahead and try using git. However, here's a current snapshot of Anarki you can play with.

http://cadrlife.com/arc/arc-wiki.tar.gz

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2 points by sjs 6115 days ago | link

You can use git as a frontend to an svn repo but I haven't heard about doing it the other way. Because git is a superset of svn it may be possible but a quick search turns up nothing. Setting up cygwin is a snap. I am still a git noob. After an hour or two of reading you'll be able to use the git basics and after a few hours more reading you'll be able to use the basics and actually know wtf is going on underneath.

http://robsanheim.com/2008/02/22/learn-git-10-different-ways...

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1 point by czoon 6110 days ago | link

is there any solution for this? . . The syntax of the command is incorrect. load items: Error: "directory-list: could not open \"G:\\MzScheme\\arc2\\arc/news/story/\""

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1 point by eds 6110 days ago | link

Yes, the Anarki git repo has a fix for this.

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=3647

There is also Anarki Stable which consists of only arc2 and bug fixes.

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=3849

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1 point by czoon 6109 days ago | link

thanks i ll try

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1 point by czoon 6102 days ago | link

from http://jfkbits.blogspot.com/2008/01/digging-into-arc-in-24-m...

(xdef 'mkdir (lambda (path) (make-directory path))) redefine mkdir. its solves problem.

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1 point by mec 6120 days ago | link | parent | on: Confusing Macro Error

Very nice fix, with that I can finally do

  (define (read-square-brackets ch port src line col pos)
    `(fn (_ . __)
       ,(read/recursive port #\[ #f)))

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2 points by mec 6120 days ago | link | parent | on: Confusing Macro Error

The space was a typo when writing the post, not in the code.

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