A basic and forming Dylan FAQ is available at
http://www.*-*-*.com/ ;Please review it.
If you wish to change, to correct, to add or to remove information from
it to make it a better FAQ, please post here or send me an email at

Sincerely,
Douglas M. Auclair

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It's great to see someone getting this going!

The GeoCities ads are truly annoying, as they cover up some of the
text just when you want to read it (since they're at the top of the
page).  Any way to get rid of them?  I suspect not.  Maybe you
could always be sure to add enough vertical whitespace near the
top so they don't cover up anything useful.

I think the first question should be "What is Dylan?".  I can't
tell you how many times I've gone to a FAQ where only had a
vague idea of what the "product" was, and the FAQ didn't explain
it.  You could probably steal the answer from either the Gwydion
or Fun-O site.

Another "gotcha" could be that you can't initialize a limited
sequence directly.  e.g.,

  define constant <int-vector> = limited(<vector>, of: <integer>);
  define constant foo :: <int-vector> = #[1, 2, 3];  // error

because the RHS is a <simple-object-vector> even though it
contains only integers.  I think the best one can do is:

  define constant foo :: <int-vector> = make(<int-vector>, size: 3);
  for (i from 0 below 3)
    foo[i] := #[1, 2, 3][i];
  end;

(untested)

If you read the info about them, they "fold up" after a short time, and you
can always dismiss them by clicking on the "X" button.  Better than animated
banner ads, I think!

Actually, I pointed a (busy and non-Dylan aware) friend to the Fun-O site
and he said he quickly gave up because there wasn't any front-page "What
is Dylan?" blurb.  There *is* an "About Dylan" link, though, so maybe he
was just too lazy/busy ;-)

I'd do

    define constant foo :: <int-vector> = as(<int-vector>, #[1, 2, 3]);

At least, I *think* that works.

Hugh

If you have to read enough to figure that out then you've already lost.

I thought of that but assumed it wouldn't work because <int-vector>
isn't part of the language.  I'll try it next time I'm in Windows.

Won't the Internet FAQ Consortium ( http://www.faqs.org/ ) host this for
free also?

It's a great centralized place to locate information too...

-Drew

Hi!

Some have kindly sent comments and emails, so I've made a couple of
changes to the FAQ.  Please see
http://www.geocities.com/dylan_programmer/FAQ.html

Sincerely,
Douglas M. Auclair

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yes they do. they do it even automatically. (at least with mine)
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/news/faq/autolisp.html