tubes

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   by tubes 14y ago

   Scheme has set-car!, vector-set!, hash-set! etc to modify its standard containers. In clojure those containers are immutable. However, you could create equivalent immutable containers in Scheme, perhaps that's why he said "by default".
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   by tubes 14y ago

   Why would anyone do that? We use immutable collections, immutable value objects, unmodifiable views and deep/shallow copies, but never serializing data to a string just for passing it around. I think most experienced Java developers would g
3. 3.▲
   by tubes 14y ago

   Not a good idea. Browsers that do not support imgset would show all three images using that syntax. A new element name like "<set>" would be ignored by them.
4. 4.▲
   by tubes 14y ago

   With a couple of simple macros, the code could be fraction of its size and much more readable. Code with that property is atrocious in my mind. For example these "argument reading" bits are repeated over and over again: ram[PC++0xfff]&0
5. 5.▲
   by tubes 15y ago

   I think in a couple of months there will be a "+1" button at the top bar of Chrome so you can click it to "like" any page.. And having a "+" button next to it would've been confusing.
6. 6.▲
   by tubes 15y ago

   gzipped base64-encoded data is about the same size as the original data, though. It only requires more processing to be done.