FYI: setItem changes

[george moromisato]

In 1.08e I've made a change to the return value of setItem. Instead of returning the value that was just set, it now returns the entire structure or array. This makes it compatible with lnkAppend and others.

For example, now you can do something like this:

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(block (myStruct)
   (setq myStruct (setItem nil 'a 'b))
   )

I've also made a bunch of other improvements to setItem:

1. Just to shorten the syntax, set@ is an alias for setItem and @ is an alias for item.
2. (set@ struct1 struct2) returns the merge of the two structures.
3. set@ now works if the target variable is nil. For example:

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(setq test nil)
(set@ test 'a 'b) -> { a:b }
test -> { a:b }

[alterecco]

Thanks George. Those changes look good. I think i kight like the new @ syntax :)

[george moromisato]

The truth is that I've been doing a lot of JavaScript programming lately (for Anacreon) and I really like their use of structs (objects). The TLisp syntax will never be that clean, but we can definitely do similar things. Now all we need is a way to access "this" and we could do object methods.

[alterecco]

The truth is that I've been doing a lot of JavaScript programming lately (for Anacreon) and I really like their use of structs (objects). The TLisp syntax will never be that clean, but we can definitely do similar things. Now all we need is a way to access "this" and we could do object methods.

Yeah, javascript is becoming a really nice language. You shouldn't by any chance be running it on the serverside with nodejs btw?

[george moromisato]

The truth is that I've been doing a lot of JavaScript programming lately (for Anacreon) and I really like their use of structs (objects). The TLisp syntax will never be that clean, but we can definitely do similar things. Now all we need is a way to access "this" and we could do object methods.

Yeah, javascript is becoming a really nice language. You shouldn't by any chance be running it on the serverside with nodejs btw?

No, sorry. For the Multiverse I'm running an improved version of TLisp (called HexeLisp), believe it or not. For Anacreon the server is almost all C++ with a thin layer of HexeLisp.

[alterecco]

Hehe, ok :) You do enjoy writing your own languages it seems :) Cudos for that.