Thanks Alex!
I appreciate the insight!
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM Alexander Burger <picolisp@software-lab.de>
wrote:
> ('(" " "^I" "^J" "^M") ..
>
> Strictly speaking this is not correct or at least not needed, as 'case'
> does not evaluate the CARs.
>
Thanks! I'll fix. I still confuse instances of when CARs and arguments in
general are, or not, evaluated.
> so the symbol 'quote' is simply also checked for.
>
In other use cases this might cause me no end of frustration. :)
> (de jsonSkipWhiteSpace (Lst)
> (while (member (car Lst) '(" " "^I" "^J" "^M"))
> (++ Lst) )
> Lst )
>
I will try this. Much easier to follow!
> But anyway, it could be just
> (seek '(((C)) (not (sp? C))) Lst)
>
'seek' I did not know about. Very useful!
'sp?' I didn't use here because I wasn't sure what it considers white space
and I just wanted to match the set defined in the json spec.
/Lindsay
