gilch / hissp

It's Python with a Lissp.
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Docs increment #191

Closed gilch closed 1 year ago

gilch commented 1 year ago

Moving more examples over, with minor changes. My Sybil setup can't handle the \" escapes necessary to use a double-quote character in a string literal. Making that work reliably looked difficult.

I can either avoid string literals in the docstrings (usually by using symbols instead) or use the <<# comment strings instead (for the inner or outer, doesn't matter which). Too bad we don't have proper heredocs, or even triple-quoted strings like Python. Common Lisp has character-stream reader macos and can implement them, but Clojure and Emacs lisp also have this problem. To maintain general Lisp editor compatibility, that's the best Lissp can do.

gilch commented 1 year ago

There's still, what, ten sections left, or so? We'll get there. Then lots of rereading and editing.