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: Be bold! It's a wiki, feel free to fix any problems yourself. (Many of the examples were contributed by undergraduates who were just learning the languages themselves.) --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 18:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC) |
Revision as of 18:33, 9 December 2008
Syntax highlighting
What's the story with syntax highlighting? I kind of like it, but are we going to use it on tasks from now on? --Mwn3d 12:23, 28 February 2008 (MST)
- I'm ambivalent until we have more/better language support. However, if other folks don't find having some languages supported while others aren't, then I wouldn't mind seeing its use expanded. NevilleDNZ was going to work on on a means of importing Vim syntax highlighting scripts so that the syntax highlighter could be extended. I'd be curious how that's coming. --Short Circuit 21:02, 28 February 2008 (MST)
Common Lisp
The Common Lisp solution is ... not very good!
- there's some wiki quoting/escaping/formatting issue with "defun"
- it uses (- x 1), where (1- x) is shorter and probably more idiomatic
- it uses (> .. 0) instead of zerop
- it uses a 1-form if instead of when
- it's recursive when it really doesn't need to be
- it uses massive indentation
- it says "1 bottles of beer", when it's trivial to say "1 bottle of beer"
- it uses ~a (any text) instead of ~d (integer) for printing integers
- it doesn't leave a line between verses
(defun bottle (n) (format t "~D bottle~:P of beer on the wall~%" n) (format t "~D bottle~:P of beer~%" n) (format t "Take one down, pass it around,~%") (format t "~D bottle~:P of beer on the wall~%~%" (1- n) (1- n))) (defun bottles (x) (loop for i from x downto 1 do (bottle i))) (bottles 99)
- Be bold! It's a wiki, feel free to fix any problems yourself. (Many of the examples were contributed by undergraduates who were just learning the languages themselves.) --IanOsgood 18:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC)