Lisp has too many parentheses...

Post by DisposaBoy » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 7:07 AM UTC

swannodette wrote: post #32

DannoHung wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That honestly looks more like a failure on the part of the Python library maintainer to create a pleasant way to create record prototypes. I mean, all you're doing in your list example is creating dictionary and list examples of the mapping you want. There is literally nothing stopping you from doing that in Python.

creators = [{"name" :{"name_authority" :TextField, "name_authority_id" :IntegerField, "display_string" :TextField}, "user_id" :IntegerField, "roles" :[TextField], "attrs" :[TextField], "xts" :[TextField]}] Yes you could do something like this. But the lack of keywords does reintroduces some noise via the quotes around strings. Moving the colons around like this to give visual alignment would probably be frowned upon.…

    creators = [
        {
            "name": {
                "name_authority": TextField,
                "name_authority_id": IntegerField,
                "display_string": TextField
            },
            "user_id" :IntegerField,
            "roles": [TextField],
            "attrs": [TextField],
            "xts": [TextField]
        }
    ]

Post by whyenot » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 7:15 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #22

mahmud wrote: post #3

Gaaah, knock off the CAPSLOCK and the machismo, please. Also, you don't need to invent backcronyms for CAR/CDR, they're now called first/rest. Having said that, I really like the presentation of your blog, nice typography. And after skimming your book[1] in progress, and noting your obvious theoretical bent and taste for rigor, I can only anticipate to read more of your future posts (latch on to something "obscure" l…

So when you call them first and rest, how do you destructure lists of lists? Actually, now that I think about it, "fire" is much cooler sounding than "cadr". But not as cool sounding as cadadr.

Post by ohyes » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 7:20 AM UTC

Post by leppie » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 7:41 AM UTC

angrycoder wrote: post #20

mahmud wrote: post #3

Gaaah, knock off the CAPSLOCK and the machismo, please. Also, you don't need to invent backcronyms for CAR/CDR, they're now called first/rest. Having said that, I really like the presentation of your blog, nice typography. And after skimming your book[1] in progress, and noting your obvious theoretical bent and taste for rigor, I can only anticipate to read more of your future posts (latch on to something "obscure" l…

The bigger problem is that CAR and CDR actually mean something without the silly anatomy analogies.

Post by jpr » Tue, Nov 09, 2010, 7:51 AM UTC