Thien-Thi was on the right track and understood the problem well as his
reply indicate as far as I understood it. He has disappeared or refusing to
show up. probably this nourishes the ego of such geeks.

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:18 PM, <joakim@verona.se> wrote:

>  PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am only satisfied with first part. There are more challenging
> questions
> >> still there. Please read the two or three of my posts before you entered
> the
> >> conversation.
> >
> > I think your other question was, "What was Thien-Thi talking about
> > when he said 'less piecewise-constructive and more table-oriented'?
> >
> > Here's my guess.  Keeping in mind that I have no idea what you're
> > trying to accomplish, I would suggest that instead of having functions
> > like find-my-marker-GOLD, find-my-marker-SILVER, and the like, you
> > just start out the file with something like:
> >
> > GOLD 1000
> > SILVER 5000
> > COPPER 28000
> > CHEESEBURGERS 2
> > END
> >
> > And then read those line-by-line to construct your alist or whatever.
>
> I also fail to comprehend what this thread is about, but could this
> maybe prove useful?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
>
> Lisp data and code look alike. The lisp data structure is convenient at
> every level of the language. Lisp as a dataformat on disk is thus also
> convenient.
>
> --
> Joakim Verona
>
>