Comments on: STRING+ for the rest of us http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/ Leslie P. Polzer on code, music, literature, design and free software business. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Daniel Barlow http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Daniel Barlow Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:34:34 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-427 I have long maintained that + is a silly name for string concatenation: 1+2=2+1=3, not 12. Concatenation isn't the equivalent for strings, it's just borrowing a piece of punctuation. FWIW, I've been using S. for exactly the same thing since forever (I think it's in Araneida somewhere). #\. is from the Perl operator, #\S is mnemonic for "string" and to avoid gymnastics with input syntax. I have long maintained that + is a silly name for string concatenation: 1+2=2+1=3, not 12. Concatenation isn’t the equivalent for strings, it’s just borrowing a piece of punctuation.

FWIW, I’ve been using S. for exactly the same thing since forever (I think it’s in Araneida somewhere). #\. is from the Perl operator, #\S is mnemonic for “string” and to avoid gymnastics with input syntax.

]]> By: slobodan http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-421 slobodan Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:01:07 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-421 Could you live without it? Of course. Why I made it? Because concatenate is generic thing for concatening sequences, while string+ matches nice into my model. Anyway it proved itself worthy even for a simple wrapper. Could you live without it? Of course.
Why I made it? Because concatenate is generic thing for concatening sequences, while string+ matches nice into my model. Anyway it proved itself worthy even for a simple wrapper.

]]> By: Leslie http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Leslie Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:52:39 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-416 Just different viewpoints, I guess. For me, STRING+ isn't really essential. FORMAT NIL and CONCATENATE 'STRING did the job well enough. I only got the idea for this sometimes-nice-to-have thing when I read Franz's announcement. So basically I was just curious :) Just different viewpoints, I guess.

For me, STRING+ isn’t really essential. FORMAT NIL and CONCATENATE ‘STRING did the job well enough.

I only got the idea for this sometimes-nice-to-have thing when I read Franz’s announcement.

So basically I was just curious :)

]]> By: slobodan http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-413 slobodan Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:35:03 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-413 Are you mocking me? For McCarthy's sake I didn't made a full blown reverese proxy with per OS load balancers. I made 2 liner utility . For everyone who played with cl-who and and clsql before things like weblocks, elephant, postmodern etc would need such thing to save some typing and got logical mapping of it's code. Are you mocking me? For McCarthy’s sake I didn’t made a full blown reverese proxy with per OS load balancers. I made 2 liner utility . For everyone who played with cl-who and and clsql before things like weblocks, elephant, postmodern etc would need such thing to save some typing and got logical mapping of it’s code.

]]> By: Leslie http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Leslie Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:42:28 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-303 Yeah, I know, my question was phrased badly. :) What I actually want to know is, how did you get the idea for this? Did you make it up wholly on your own? Yeah, I know, my question was phrased badly. :) What I actually want to know is, how did you get the idea for this? Did you make it up wholly on your own?

]]> By: slobodan http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-301 slobodan Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:02:59 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-301 Well I thought about wating for Santa, but considering he pretty much sucks with documentation, christmas was far away, and I'm known for being a bad hm kid. So I hold a meeting with me, myself and I and after a hell of a debate I decided to write it myself. Which I did. Well I thought about wating for Santa, but considering he pretty much sucks with documentation, christmas was far away, and I’m known for being a bad hm kid. So I hold a meeting with me, myself and I and after a hell of a debate I decided to write it myself. Which I did.

]]> By: Leslie http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Leslie Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:39:54 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-272 Ah, where did you get it from? Ah, where did you get it from?

]]> By: slobodan http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-271 slobodan Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:23:48 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/02/17/string-for-the-rest-of-us/#comment-271 string+ is in my toolbox since I started toying with cl-who. string+ is in my toolbox since I started toying with cl-who.

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