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#1
I have a few directories full of files named with trailing spaces. I thought this would remove the trailing spaces, but it only returns nil.


(dolist (x (directory path))
        (rename-file x (trim x))
)


I tried debugging by using (trace true) with the following code:


(dolist (x (directory path))
   (file? x))
)


The "." and ".." files in the directory are files, but the other files return "nil". Does the trailing space prevent newLISP from recognizing the file as a file? Is there something else that may be causing the error (e.g. bad code on my part)? Thanks!
#2
tldr: How do I tell whether route_cgi.lsp is running?



A "submit" button on index.nhtml POSTs to script.nl. Instead of getting the desired/expected response from script.nl, I get the full text of the script file.



index.nhtml and script.nl are both in /views, and route_cgi.lsp is in /plugins-active... however, the same thing happened when route_cgi.lsp was in /plugins-inactive.



I got stuck trying to debug because I do not know how to verify whether route_cgi.lsp is loading/running. It doesn't show up in the network debugger (but I don't know if it should), but script.nl does.

I apologize for asking such a simple question. I have no other experience with web frameworks or cgi. I tried google, but all the answers seemed to be specific to PHP or Perl, etc.



Thank you for any help. :)
#3
newLISP in the real world / need help understanding letex
December 20, 2014, 11:14:37 PM
My code is a mess, and I apologize. I'm a newbie, and I got stuck trying to work out one of the bugs.



I'm trying to learn newLISP by solving some of the Project Euler problems. I'm currently working on Problem 4 using streams, using some functions from http://www.newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2162">//http://www.newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2162. (It's the task I was given by my mentor.)



I'm trying to use the 2nd syntax of letex, but I must have something wrong because I get "ERR: list or string expected in function empty? s2".


(define (product-stream-Reuler s1 s2 , s3)
  (setf s3 (if
    (empty-stream? s1) the-empty-stream
    (empty-stream? s2) the-empty-stream
    (letex (
      a1 (head s1)
      a2 (head s2)
      c1 (tail s1)
      c2 (tail s2)
      )
      (println "a1=" 'a1 ", a2=" 'a2 "ns1=" 's1 ", s2=" 's2 "nc1=" 'c1)
      (accumulate cons '()
        (cons-stream
          ; first palindrome product of (* n s2)
          (head
            (filter-stream palindrome?
              (product-stream (num-stream 'a1) 's2)
            )
          )
          ; re-run with next n
          (product-stream-Reuler 'c1 's2)
        )
      )
    )
  ))
  s3
)

; a and b are streams of the integers from 999 to 100
(product-stream-Reuler a b)


I've tried fully parenthasizing the initializers [i.e. `(a1 (head s1))`] and adding initializers for (a s1) and (c s2), but neither fixes the problem.



What bit of letex am I misunderstanding?



Thank you for your help.
#4
newLISP in the real world / syntax for apply
October 29, 2014, 10:26:21 PM
This code (shown below) from the "Namespace context switching" section of "http://www.newlisp.org/ExpressionEvaluation.html">Expression Evaluation in newLISP" does not seem to follow the syntax given in the manual: (apply func list [int-reduce]).



(context 'Foo)
(set 'var 123)
(define (func)
    (println "current context: " (context))
    (println "var: " var))
(context 'MAIN)

...

(apply 'Foo:func)

prints:

current context: Foo

var: 123




Is there an unlisted second syntax for apply? If not, can someone help me to understand how the above example fits (apply func list [int-reduce]) (e.g. is the second parameter also optional)?



Thanks!
#5
I think I found a typo in the pop function section of the newLISP manual.


(set 'pList '((f g) a b c "hello" d e 10))
(pop pList)  → (f g)
(pop pList)  → a
pList        → (b c "hello" d e 10)
(pop pList 3)    → d
(pop pList 100)  → 10


As-is, (pop pList 100) produces an invalid index error. The line should probably read
(pop pList 4)    → 10
or
(pop pList -1)    → 10

Is there a better place to post this? Thank you!
#6
I think I found a typo in one of the code snippets in the ref function section of the newLISP manual.


; get index vectors for list elements
(set 'pList '(a b (c d (x) e)))
(ref 'x pList)    → (2 2 0)
(ref '(x) pList)   → (2 2)
; the key expression is in a variable
(set 'p '(c d (x) e))
(ref p pList p)     → (2)


(ref p pList p)  should instead be (ref p pList)