ejbs2

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   by ejbs2 10y ago

   The treap, aka what people should learn instead of red black trees (because they're a lot simpler with similar performance).
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   by ejbs2 10y ago

   How are fingerprint's supposed to be generated? Just another hash?
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   by ejbs2 10y ago

   Hey man, writing bindings for Vacietis so you can call clx as XLib right now :)
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   New Common Lisp website(lisp-lang.org)

   137 points by ejbs2 10y ago|53 comments
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   by ejbs2 10y ago

   That's not really equivalent to what Rebol does or what my stuff does. What do you do when you want to unbind msg? Or when you want to carry around your bindings with you and change them through function calls?
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   A short response to the Rebol vs Lisp macros article(gist.github.com)

   4 points by ejbs2 10y ago|3 comments
7. 7.▲
   by ejbs2 10y ago

   Meh, not necessarily. Lazy by default gives you a lot of good stuff. We shouldn't assume that macros can't be done better anyway.
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   by ejbs2 10y ago

   So this was a very interesting post. I would like to note that we can actually do something like definitional scoping in CL too :), but we need to write it ourselves! We would do this using CLOS and its MOP, more precisely by using the FUNC
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   by ejbs2 10y ago

   More like: If possible, then don't define a macro. You should use macros as much as possible.