Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp

Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by sago on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:11PM (#17536526)

After RTFM, I can answer my own question:

> In Arc, data structures can be used wherever functions are, and they behave as functions from indices to whatever's stored there.

(quoted from the Arc tutorial)

   arc> (l 0)
   1

and so on. So the GP makes sense.

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Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by dmead on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:11PM (#17537104)

that's confusing as hell. there's a reason this didn't take off (Besides the competition from clojure)

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Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by etatoby on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:59PM (#17537571)

I don't like the Arc language because it's dynamically typed and thus inherently unsafe (see other threads for this sort of discussion.)

But I like this particular feature. If you think about it, an array is a mathematical function, or map, from indices to values. So it makes sense to be able to apply it to indices to get the respective values.

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Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by DavidSJ on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:36PM (#17537726)

In that sense, map just composes its two arguments.

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Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by JadeNB on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:39PM (#17537938)

That's cool! I'm a mathematician and so inclined to (over-)abstract programming, but it had never occurred to me to think of it that way.

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Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by sova on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:54PM (#17545011)

Learn you a lisp for great justice

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Re:Anarki – Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp by quadcore on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:45PM (#17537273)

It's kinda cool to be able to write (myarray i).

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