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Defmacro: A User Interface Definition Language in Common Lisp (defmacro.org)
9 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link
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"Two part noob question"
8 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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Let me explain the "two within one" problem that you may be saying that you do not see.

  (mac check args                                 ;;no qq's
       `(do                                       ;; ` one qq
          ,(each arg (list ,@args)                ;; ,(,@) two escapes
             `(report-result ,arg ',arg))))       ;; `(, ',) two qq one escape
So on the line

  ,(each arg (list ,@args)
you are doubly escaping something that is only quoted once.
"Top 10 differences between Scheme and Arc"
8 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | top
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* arc has a budding community, scheme has an aging community

* arc has a designer/dictator, scheme has a committee

* arc has this forum, scheme has lots of scattered stuff

"Ask PG: And the canonical source is...?"
6 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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yea. I guess that 'yay' sounded sarcastic. It wasn't. All of the best languages I know of are benevolent dictatorships.
"Any reason not to use '?' instead of 'o' for optional parameters?"
6 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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I think that people want comments to have value in them. The best example of why this might get downmodded is if you look at it on the comments page it just looks like +1 without any context. So in that case it looks like a pretty vacuous comment. I think that if you enjoy a submission just upmod it. If you have something to add to the conversation add it.
"New version"
6 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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it would be nice if we made specs to test the language, a la Rubinius, while the language is still small. Then, we could say with greater confidence of the merge.
"Two part noob question"
6 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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Great reply, you are exactly what the Arc community needs to succeed!
"Bug with voting on the forum"
5 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | top
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I'm this same post was on news.yc more than a year ago.
"Poll: What would you change in Arc?"
5 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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4 is crucial in my mind. You cannot let the language have more power than the programmer. Also, it lets you build more consistent programs instead of needing your own gets and sets all over the place. This would make it a huge win in decreasing tokens a program has to remember and grok about a new program they are reading.
"Meta Forum Questions"
5 points by ryantmulligan over 2 years ago | link | top
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I have another meta question. When you post an external link in the title of a submission it makes it hard to get to the comment thread. Any chance of a link to the comments in the description of the RSS item?
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