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by tkrn 6mo ago
After reading this thread, my brain is now convinced that copilots are actually some sort of small South American mammals. I think I'll stick to that definition; I don't want to lose my mental image of the daft-looking little copi
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by tkrn 7mo ago
Describing Coalton as a CL add-on or even as a DSL has always seemed wrong to me. It's of course very tightly integrated with the Common Lisp runtime but it's also very different as an actual language. And I mean that in a positiv
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by tkrn 7mo ago
Nice, pretty much what I had in mind. I think there could be some interesting potential there tooling wise. Combining a highly dynamic interactive environment with a good statically typed language sounds fascinating to me and it's some
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by tkrn 7mo ago
Wouldn't that be something that the tooling could deal with easily? I don't know if there is anything like that yet, but the last time I took a quick look at Coalton it seemed like some basic SLIME and ASDF etc support with its ow
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by tkrn 7mo ago
SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE is also pretty metal function name. Goes nicely with the shout-case too.
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by tkrn 7mo ago
Good points. I don't think pairs are a code smell when used reasonably in situations where a pair of two values makes sense, like in your make-hash example. Ideally though I'd like to have a real, distinct (immutable) pair/as
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by tkrn 7mo ago
I agree that there is maybe too much potential for confusion with that, but is the dot operator (or read syntax?) actually used that much these days? Personally I have mostly sometimes used it with Emacs Lisp, but in general relying too muc
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by tkrn 7mo ago
I'm not too fond of adding extra syntax or infix operators to Lisps but I have been thinking lately if maybe some limited form of infix macros could be useful, mainly in binding forms and such. E.g anaphoric ifs were a thing in the pas
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by tkrn 11mo ago
>The spaghetti code was astounding, and I remember squeezing line numbers between existing code-- adding a "31 GOTO 40" so I could squeeze a "room" into lines 32-39. I spent too many nights trying to implement complex
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by tkrn 11mo ago
I could see LLMs being useful as just an UI layer on top of traditional interactive fiction engines? Having a voice-operated IF assistant/narrator paired with tools for note taking and such could offer an accessible alternative interfa
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by tkrn 1y ago
Although I'm a recovering sexp addict I must confess that I fail to see what makes the cons cell so important to those purer in their faith? To me the homoiconity of Lisp is mainly about code-as-data, the exact nature of the data doesn
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by tkrn 1y ago
Years ago when I was a bit obsessed about the Holy Grail of a living & breathing CRPG world the approach that seemed most promising to me then was having an expert system style AI module running on top of the complex but mechanical and
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by tkrn 1y ago
Interestingly you can also (of course) ask them to complete for System role prompts. Most models I have tried this with seem to have a bit of an confused idea about the exact style of those and the replies are often a kind of an mixture of