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0:46:03
zacque
Hi, I don't get the OBJECT parameter in PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK. It's stated that "The object is normally a list that the body forms are responsible for printing." Yet, it makes no difference if I pass a list object or NIL into it
0:54:29
specbot
Examples of using the Pretty Printer: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/22_bb.htm
0:56:19
zacque
Ah, makes sense! I was confused by the first SIMPLE-PPRINT-DEFUN example, didn't notice that PPRINT-POP is used in the PPRINT-LET example
1:31:24
zacque
CLHS 22.2.1.1 is so difficult to understand. Does anyone have the code to generate Figure 22-3?
1:32:00
zacque
(a) Is there a line break at the end of "000000000000000000000000000"? Or does it wrap around to "11"? (b) So, is the space in "11 111111111111111111111111" meant to be a whitespace or a line break? (c) Why are there so many spaces before "22 222", "333 3333", and "444..."?
6:40:02
jackdaniel
I have a strong conviction that you should know that by now if you were listening to advices on this channel
6:40:55
asarch
I lost the half of the log when I was trying to build the OpenSmalltalk-VM with OpenBSD
6:41:43
asarch
I clobber the main partition by mistake with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 :-(
6:41:47
jackdaniel
I don't really care, my point is that instead of doing systematic study you waste people time by pursuing chaotic endvaours (that in itself is fine, but you keep coming here to ask very basic questions for years)
6:47:39
asarch
I am still stuck at the part where I need to generate Lisp code dynamically a la (:htm (:body (:table (:thead (:tr (:th …) (:th …) (:th …) …)))))
6:49:09
asarch
How could you pass a list to a function to generate the table header columns and then pass the result to the (:htm) generator?
6:49:36
minion
asarch: look at pcl: pcl-book: "Practical Common Lisp", an introduction to Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, available at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and in dead-tree form from Apress (as of 11 April 2005).
10:16:31
madnificent
jackdaniel: I think we should inform that hte first section of PCL is a bit outdated. It starts with setting up an environment and part of that is now commonly handled by quicklisp. The book is great and I've bought a few to motivate peers.