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15:46:42
pjb
I have an idea, let's write what we work on in a ~/.plan file, and let's the finger command fetch and dump this fileā¦
15:49:08
ck_
hold on not so fast I need to copy this down -- "let's ... the finger ... command fetch and dump the file" ok got it
15:49:33
ck_
will proceed with this plan but I will make a feint to the north-east first I'll surround them
15:49:59
pjb
aindilis: there's the notion of conformance in CL. This is stronger than portable. Portable, is only a potential. conforming is definitive.
15:50:34
pjb
aindilis: If you write conforming code, then it is guaranteed that it will run the same in all conforming implementations. No work to do, no porting of portABLE code, or whatever.
16:13:06
Xach
My cron job failed last night, but not to worry, it's because a lightning storm knocked out power. time to get another ups...
16:20:45
ck_
Xach: I just read your conversation with a scammer. Wonder why they're all called Solomon.
16:31:36
ck_
ah, good news -- githubstatus.com says 'error rates have dropped'. I guess the levees are holding.
18:13:35
decent-username
Hi, does someone of you know how I could disable the quoting behaviour of paredit in Emacs? Right now when I type a backslash character it will quote the next key stroke, but I just want a simple backslash character.
18:17:03
ck_
decent-username: \ is probably bound to paredit-backslash. Bind it to self-insert-command or remove the binding to get the behaviour you're looking for
18:23:48
Xach
C-q <anything> will insert that thing rather than going through fanciness, it's a generic emacs feature.
18:24:09
decent-username
I'm not an elisp hacker, so I have no clue how to rebind keys. I just started writing some function for the paredit mode hook.
20:57:51
Guest5703
I'm wondering where it comes from, there seem to be references outside emacs lisp.
21:02:51
zhlyg
Gah, wrong terminal again.. did obarray provide a mechanism for symbol specialization?
21:08:05
housel
REMOB corresponds to http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_uninte.htm
21:20:02
zhlyg
housel: yes of-course, the symbols value vs its reachability/existence. Anyhow, thanks for the link. Those pre-CL lisps really seems to be the origin of the obarray concept.
21:22:32
zhlyg
Interesting style, is it to get temporary reachability of the special symbol X? (LET ((X ...)) ... (MAKUNBOUND 'X) ...) ;bad style
21:23:25
housel
https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf page 12 says that before 1971 it was a list (and thus OBLIST)
21:28:37
zhlyg
housel: wow! thanks for digging that up! So the name is most probably a short for object-array.