clarification on lexical scopes needed - why parameter name 'args breaks things?

2022-05-07 Thread Jason Vas Dias
Good day Alex, picoLisp list - Why does declaring a parameter named 'args', in a function that does NOT use the '(args)' call, break things severely ? I had a function that does NOT use the built-in 'args, but which declared a parameter named 'args : (de a ( fun data args ) (let

Re: clarification on lexical scopes needed - why parameter name 'args breaks things?

2022-05-07 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jason, > Why does declaring a parameter named 'args', in a function that does > NOT use the '(args)' call, break things severely ? > > I had a function that does NOT use the built-in 'args, but which > declared a parameter named 'args : > ... > Then eventually 'fun calls a functio

Re: clarification on lexical scopes needed - why parameter name 'args breaks things?

2022-05-07 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 08:45:48PM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote: > There is an ongoing confusion of terms: "Scope" means "visibility", but when > we > talk about the values of symbols it is "binding". We should really talk about this at the next PilCon (in three days). ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Wiki Article: Asynchronous Events and Family IPC

2022-05-07 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, a new Wiki article about internal background processing, asynchronous events and family IPC in PicoLisp: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?background I think this was not yet documented anywhere. ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe

Re: Wiki Article: Asynchronous Events and Family IPC

2022-05-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
By the way, the picolisp twitter account is great !!! :-) JC > On May 8, 2022, at 14:08, Alexander Burger wrote: > > Hi all, > > a new Wiki article about internal background processing, asynchronous events > and > family IPC in PicoLisp: > > https://picolisp.com/wiki/?background > > I thi

Picolisp community

2022-05-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
I was thinking that having the following items added to the Community page would be nice: 1. twitter account 2. Mia's blog 3. Mia's twitter account Also, the documentation page could also have the link to Mia's various tutorials. -- Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune https://mac4translators.