8:37:25beachjackdaniel: "advice" is a substance in English, so it has no plural form, just like water, air, etc. You need to use "a piece of advice" in singular, but you can use "advice" to main any number of such pieces of advice.
8:37:39beachACTION felt like giving a short English lesson today. :)
8:55:09lokered-dot: You'll like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/868blr/all_of_you_so_black_how_to_recognise_hotel_cafe/
8:59:04lokebeach: Is there a simply way to create some margins around some output? I guess I could just create a white border, but...
9:00:00beachloke: Look in chapter 19. surrounding-output-with-border
9:00:08beachNot sure it applies to your case, of course.
9:00:39lokebeach: Right. I know about that one. I just figured there may be a clealer way to jsut create empty margins. Like surounding-output0with-margins
12:06:50nyefloke: That's starting to look okay, though I do agree that getting the parens right, or at least not horribly wrong, is probably the biggest win right now.
13:50:16beachSome referee complained that our paper only discusses the TECHNIQUE for inlining, not the strategy for when inlining should be applied. He basically said that "inlining is just β-reduction, so it IS trivial. So why is this paper only about that?"
13:50:47beachAside from β-reduction being incorrect, it is a strange thing to say.
13:51:58beachSure, inlining is fairly trivial in a purely functional language, but when you start having side effects, it becomes a bit more delicate.
13:52:43beachI added the following example: (defun f (x y) (setf x y)) (defun g (a) (f a 3)).
13:53:16beachIf the technique from functional programming is used, you get (defun g (a) (setf a 3))