Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > (output-line
> > (line-append
> > (report-string linedata 1 "Net Income (Loss)" 0 'TotalDescription)
> > (report-total linedata grand-total-collector #f
> > 2 "Net Income" 'CreditTotalAmount))
> > sample-
On 02 Jan 2000 01:22:49 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > Now, the first thing that happens is that the bracketed report-string
> > > expression is evaluated. my-port is bound to anything in the
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Now, the first thing that happens is that the bracketed report-string
> > expression is evaluated. my-port is bound to anything in the frame
> > where report-string is evaluated, is it?
>
> my-port is bound to whatever is the value of my-port
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 13:57:28 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Christopher Browne writes:
>
> (In the context of the functions report-value, report-date, report-total):
> > > > >2) What should these functions return? At this stage, they
Christopher Browne writes:
(In the context of the functions report-value, report-date, report-total):
> > > >2) What should these functions return? At this stage, they have to
> > > > return some kind of data structure which would probably be a vector
> > > > containing
> > > > i
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2) The use of "thunk" here makes me think I have misunderstood the
> return value of report-value and its ilk. A thunk, as I understand
> it, is a no-argument function. If I do the following
> (define x (list 1 2 3))
> Does "x" become a thunk?
It's been rumoured that Christopher Browne said:
> The problem here is that we have two choices:
>
> a) Define a report-writing language, or
> b) Define a report-writing language *as well as a language for
>representing device-independent reports.*
>
> The approach I'm suggesting is more lik
> > Preface this with one comment: the word "thunk" is not necessarily
> > well-used throughout this posting. I would speculate that the
> > "financial reporting language" should be gone over once or twice
> > more, fairly carefully, and that which fa
>I'm going over your mail of a few weeks ago, attempting to figure
> >out how to actually implement this code.
>
> Preface this with one comment: the word "thunk" is not necessarily
> well-used throughout this posting. I would speculate that the
> "financial
>out how to actually implement this code.
Preface this with one comment: the word "thunk" is not necessarily
well-used throughout this posting. I would speculate that the
"financial reporting language" should be gone over once or twice
more, fairly carefully, and that w
I've mostly completed the data-collection part of the transaction
reports code, and am now figuring out how to implement the formatted
data output.
I'm going over your mail of a few weeks ago, attempting to figure
out how to actually implement this code.
I'd just like some clarifications on a f
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