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8:37:25
beach
jackdaniel: "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.
8:39:17
beach
Oh, things like that are different everywhere. We haven't started on verb+preposition yet. Different meaning in different languages.
8:55:09
loke
red-dot: You'll like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/868blr/all_of_you_so_black_how_to_recognise_hotel_cafe/
8:59:04
loke
beach: Is there a simply way to create some margins around some output? I guess I could just create a white border, but...
9:00:39
loke
beach: Right. I know about that one. I just figured there may be a clealer way to jsut create empty margins. Like surounding-output0with-margins
9:06:26
jackdaniel
you may define locally macro :surrounding-output-with-margins which changes keywords like :margin-left … to :padding-left etc
9:38:11
loke
perhaps the horizontal line for fractions should be slightly wider than the widest component
12:06:50
nyef
loke: 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.
12:47:39
beach
nyef: A while ago, you mentioned bugs in SBCL related to inlining. Do you remember any such bug and what caused it?
13:50:16
beach
Some 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?"
13:51:58
beach
Sure, inlining is fairly trivial in a purely functional language, but when you start having side effects, it becomes a bit more delicate.
13:53:16
beach
If the technique from functional programming is used, you get (defun g (a) (setf a 3))