From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbols?
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:29:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha9nbof6.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3fvp8h358.fsf@gmail.com
Evans Winner <ego111@gmail.com> writes:
>> The only thing I can think of that I saw in other
>> languages and not in Lisp is *pattern matching*:
>> branching straight off the functions' heads, like it
>> is possible to do (and a very common practice) in
>> languages like Erlang, SML, and Haskell. But I
>> suppose it could be implemented as a Lisp macro if
>> you really cared for it.
>
> For what it's worth, you might find Shen interesting
>
> shenlanguage.org
>
> From the "Shen in 15 Minutes" page:
>
> (define factorial 0 -> 1 X -> (* X (factorial (- X
> 1))))
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, and that looks like a
mix of Lisp and Erlang.
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2013-12-31 18:24 ` why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbols? Emanuel Berg
2014-01-01 2:00 ` Evans Winner
2014-01-01 17:29 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-01-01 19:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-01-02 4:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-02 4:39 ` Yuri Khan
2013-12-30 16:46 Rustom Mody
2014-01-01 4:53 ` Rustom Mody
2014-01-02 5:30 ` Rustom Mody
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2014-01-02 14:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-01-03 5:00 ` Yuri Khan
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2014-01-03 23:47 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-01-01 17:26 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-12-29 23:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-30 15:27 ` Barry Margolin
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2013-12-29 14:23 Gregor Zattler
2013-12-29 16:00 ` Drew Adams
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2013-12-30 13:19 ` Damien Wyart
2013-12-30 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-30 17:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-12-31 17:52 ` Emanuel Berg
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