funk443

joined 2 years ago
[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

So I can do terminal stuffs in Emacs, instead of having to open another terminal window

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The good old pencil and paper, always reliable

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lmao, that vim guy got blown out of the water

 

For example, I've seen someone defining a package like so:

(defpackage :foobar
  (:use :cl))

instead of:

(defpackage foobar
  (:use cl))

Is there any actual difference? Or it's just a personal preference, and has no effect on the program at all?

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

In Common Lisp, as opposed to Scheme, it is not possible that the car of the compound form to be evaluated is an arbitrary form. If it is not a symbol, it must be a lambda expression, which looks like (lambda lambda-list form*).

This

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It means the guy enlarged the texts in his buffer by 1 level

[–] funk443@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Write a simple project with each of these languages, and you'll get the idea