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3 points by fractal 6116 days ago | link | parent

Sweet, thanks for these! If only Arc was a lisp-2, we could continue the CL naming convention. I'd also like to point out these are useful even if you have readline:

  arc> (do-some-lengthy-computation)
    #<some value>
  arc> ;; D'oh! I wish I had assigned that somewhere!
vs

  CL> (do-some-lengthy-computation)
    #<some value>
  CL> (defvar tp *)
Or

  arc> (some (interesting (expression ...)))
    some-value
  arc> `(some (other (stuff ;; D'oh! I want to embed the
                            ;; previous expression here
vs

  CL> (some (interesting (expression ...)))
    some-value
  CL> `(some (other (stuff ,+)))