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From: Phil Clayton <phil.clayton@lineone.net>
Subject: Re: initialize an array (1-D) at elaboration using an expression based on the index?
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:45:20 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-10-31T17:45:20-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bea71348-103e-44cc-8aca-42157e1c13b9@l8g2000yql.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a0119201-ab0d-4bd1-b271-3835076ca365@26g2000yqv.googlegroups.com

On Oct 31, 6:47 pm, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, if you think that'll trigger "drowning in parentheses"-fear then
> you should probably stay away from LISP.

I do.  On the subject of LISP, I saw a great talk recently on Clojure
(think LISP on JVM) containing what is now one of my all time
favourite slides:
http://blog.fogus.me/2010/10/25/fertile-ground-the-roots-of-clojure/
Go to slide 21 (of 75).


> As for a better syntax, I'm not sure; but then again I'm not sure that
> an "x:= y if b else z"-style of expression is actually needed given
> that we have declare-blocks.

Are loop statements actually needed given the presence of conditional
statements and goto statements? :)

Phil



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-01  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-15 23:03 initialize an array (1-D) at elaboration using an expression based on the index? Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-15 23:31 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-16  0:16   ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-16  0:29     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-16  1:47       ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-16  1:01     ` Randy Brukardt
2010-10-16 10:08     ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-18 15:03       ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-19  6:29         ` Randy Brukardt
2010-10-20 20:01         ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-19 16:34     ` Britt Snodgrass
2010-10-19 18:05       ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-19 19:00         ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-11-10 14:33     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-10 15:51       ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-10 17:19         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-10 18:03           ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-11  1:07         ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-11  8:30           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-11 12:02           ` Robert A Duff
2010-11-11 14:19             ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-16  0:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-16  0:54 ` Gene
2010-10-16  1:11   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-21 13:44 ` Chad  R. Meiners
2010-10-24 16:40   ` Shark8
2010-10-24 22:48     ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-25  2:23       ` Shark8
2010-10-29 23:26         ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-31 18:47           ` Shark8
2010-10-31 21:59             ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-01  0:45             ` Phil Clayton [this message]
2010-11-01  1:55               ` Shark8
2010-10-30  6:34         ` Brian Drummond
2010-10-31 19:00           ` Shark8
2010-10-31 18:09             ` (see below)
2010-10-31 19:35               ` Shark8
2010-10-31 22:47                 ` (see below)
2010-11-01  0:07                   ` Shark8
2010-10-31 23:21                     ` (see below)
2010-10-31 21:26             ` Brian Drummond
2010-11-12 18:10             ` Randy Brukardt
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