[parenscript-devel] New Parenscript release.

[Red Daly]

I use a syntax like this:

(methcall 't-string object param1 parm2 param3)

=> object.tString(param1, param2, param3).

It's basically a shortcut for ((slot-object ...) param1 ...) but I have
found it to be more readable.

When I need a long string of dot-separated identifiers (e.g. foo.bar.viz) I
use (slot-value foo 'bar 'viz) => foo.bar.viz

What other syntax do people use to deal with dotted objects in Parenscript?
I try to avoid them if possible, perhaps because the current syntax is
verbose.

Red

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>wrote:

> John Fremlin <john at fremlin.org> writes:
>
> > Hi Vladimir,
> >
> > It seems that the new parenscript horribly breaks tpd2.
> >
> > The awful part of the business is changing from using elements.push etc.
> > methods.
> >
> > You seem to recommend to rewrite them as ((slot-value elements 'push)
> > new-thing).
> >
> > This is completely not at all related to Common Lisp syntax, which was
> > supposedly the aim of this change, so I guess I am barking up the wrong
> > end of the stick.
> >
> > Should I wait for the reader macros before making the update?
>
> I've been tasked with re-adding the shorthand syntax to parenscript [0]
> in the symbol-syntax if you need these features. Right now it only does
> (.method ...)  syntax, but sometime today or tomorrow I'll have
> (foo.bar.baz) expanding to ((slot-value foo 'bar) 'baz). I'm not sure
> whether it is worthwhile keeping foo[bar] syntax; (aref foo bar) is not
> particularly less convenient.
>
> If upstream will not accept the changes this will be maintained as part
> of UCW again (probably renamed to avoid conflicts; since ps no longer
> uses the js package we'll move back there). I'll try to keep up with
> merges from upstream and whatnot as well.
>
> [0] http://git.hcoop.net/?p=clinton/parenscript.git;a=summary
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