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Re:A different take on S-expressions on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:12PM (#44321596)
Actually it's quite simple. We parse from left to right. When we hit EOL, we return to the beginning of line and increase Y by one.

Blocks are parsed in the following way: when we get the beginning count of block opening characters, we move Y by one, loop right while whitespace, until we encounter ending count of block characters.

In transposed block, we just switch X and Y, it is easily done with pointers, and use the same code.

Re:A different take on S-expressions on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:31AM (#44316356)
Here, I brought down the enthusiasm a bit in the closing word. I hope it creates less confusion now.
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:40AM (#44316074)
Solves a mess with closing parens. But I'm not sure if it is worth of hassle. Anyway, it exists.
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:47PM (#44314221)
That looks clean, can't argue that.
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:36PM (#44313474)
Ikr? People should loosen a bit, why should everything be so serious?
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:25PM (#44313403)
Sorry for the confusion. I must be a very disturbed person because I kind of like what is explained there.
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:22PM (#44313385)
Changed the "somewhat" to "very" in the document, thank you.
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:20PM (#44313374)
Thank you for the criticism. Lots of lispers share your opinion.
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:19PM (#44313367)
I don't intend to be funny. Just a bit childish, but in a good way :)
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:14PM (#44313329)
Here is another example, an axiom from propositional logic:

    (impl (impl p (impl q r)) (impl (impl p q) (impl p r)))
which, vertically indented in a transposed block, looks like this:

    * (                                               )
    *   i (               ) (                       )
    *   m   i p (       )     i (       ) (       )
        p   m     i q r       m   i p q     i p r
        l   p     m           p   m         m           *
            l     p           l   p         p           *
                  l               l         l           *
which, using transposed lines within the transposed block, finally looks like this:

    * (                                                                                           )
    *   *impl* (                               ) (                                              )   *
    *            *impl* *p* (                )     *impl* (                ) (                )     *
                              *impl* *q* *r*                *impl* *p* *q*     *impl* *p* *r*       *
This time I won't make any judgements. Could be good, could be bad, you decide.
Re:A different take on S-expressions on Sunday June 15, 2025 @07:25AM (#44281757)
You can say it's good. Or you can say it's bad. But you can't say you're indifferent.
Re:FlakeUI on Monday March 03, 2025 @03:25PM (#43246264)
At some moment I had a version with cached bitmaps that simply flew fast and smooth. But, since HTML has some serious issues with rendering to bitmap from js, I had to pick the slower version with native real time HTML rendering.
Re:FlakeUI on Monday March 03, 2025 @02:34PM (#43245751)
It is true that I plan a custom renderer with scripting support, to replace the HTML version. From the tests I performed by now, it can be smoother and faster than the current version. But it is yet to be seen how well would a substitution to HTML catch up with the current state of art CSS+HTML+JS.
Re:FlakeUI on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:52PM (#43244593)
I'm sorry, I really wouldn't know what's happening there. On my Linux, Chromium works the best, Firefox can pass, Opera is a bit slower, and Epiphany (is that the name?) chokes a fair bit.

On i3, Windows things seem fine - I tried Edge, Chrome, and Firefox.

On Mac, I somehow managed to get it working based on Lambda Test web interface feedback, but I wouldn't know the real use performance.

Re:FlakeUI on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:06PM (#43243983)
May I ask, what machine you are running it on? On my Celeron (4GB RAM), things are OK-ish.
Re:FlakeUI on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:31AM (#43243447)
Maybe a note keeping app?