| adeht |
rindolf: my brother had AIMA in hard-cover.. and
maybe I can get a hold of PAIP |
| adeht |
s/had/has/; |
| * adeht |
yays for perl |
| rindolf |
adeht: what did perl do? |
| adeht |
<adeht> s/had/has/; |
| rindolf |
adeht: it’s actually from sed and ed before
that. |
| adeht |
I know, but I’m using perl syntax :) |
| rindolf |
adeht: now write it in Lisp. |
| adeht |
heh. |
| adeht |
in Lisp you wouldn’t use a regex for this kind of
dumb substitution.. though you could |
| adeht |
rindolf: a nice way of writing CL code is to
imagine your dream language for expressing that particular problem,
and then realizing it :) |
| rindolf |
You probably wouldn’t use a regex in Python
either. |
| rindolf |
adeht: I see. |
| rindolf |
adeht: I’m not going to implement Perl in Common
Lisp. :-D |
| adeht |
heh |