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2 points by rincewind 6381 days ago | link | parent | on: Forum suggestions

1. You could use the firefox extension "It's all Text" and edit your submissions in emacs/vim/nano/textmate/notepad.exe/whatever.

2. Indent your code by 2 (additional) spaces and put it in a separate paragraph, then it will be displayed correctly.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aarclanguage.org+code+f...

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This may be related to http://arclanguage.org/item?id=5720

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1 point by sacado 6381 days ago | link

Hmmm... very possible...

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Thank you!

I think the docstrings on anarki should say that round does unbiased rounding.

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3 points by rincewind 6416 days ago | link | parent | on: Predicates: `is...' versus `...?'

I think this should not be embedded into function names. My Idea: Arc IDEs could instead manage attributes for names like "predicate", "has side effects", or "is a global". IDEs would search for such tags in the docstring of a function and syntax-highlight it accordingly. Lisp does not have enough syntax to highlight anyway.

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2 points by nex3 6416 days ago | link

I'm about the idea of building IDE support into the language. I'd much prefer a name-based solution.

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5 points by absz 6416 days ago | link

You're what about the idea? Ambivalent? Inquiring minds want to know!

EDIT: I'm not trying to be rude, but sometimes the internet does not convey nuance very well. Don't take it that way, if you please.

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4 points by nex3 6416 days ago | link

Sometimes people who post to the internet don't proofread their posts :p.

The word I meant to put in there was "dubious." Sorry about that.

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2 points by absz 6416 days ago | link

Thank you, good sir.

And I completely concur (great word choice)--I'm working in a text editor right now (TextMate, not Emacs), and it's perfectly suitable. Forcing use of an IDE, or biasing towards it, would turn me away from the language.

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1 point by almkglor 6416 days ago | link

Interesting. Care to start hacking the arc-wiki docstrings? I know I haven't even completed the "see also" links ^^

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3 points by rincewind 6450 days ago | link | parent | on: Poll: What would you change in Arc?

operator overloading! I have implemented lazy lists, but they can not be used like normal lists. I'd like to define (cdr my-lazy-list), so i can pass a lazy list to functions like keep and map1. Maybe Arc needs a real type system first.

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