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000041_icon-group-sender _Thu Jun 15 20:12:06 1995.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 08:54:28 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 15 Jun 1995 20:12:06 -0700
From: scott@cs.arizona.edu (Scott E Gilbert)
Message-Id: <3rqsq6$g9s@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU>
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <3rpcmd$ie0@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Re: ICON vs Ted Nelson
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <3rpcmd$ie0@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, <ryder@mbnet.mb.ca> wrote:
>I am just wondering whether or not anyone posts any ICON related info here. It currently sounds more
>like the TED Nelson pro / con list! Maybe u could start a new list for the the letter and its responses, hmm!
>_don
>
Actually, I'm usually so pleased to see _any_ posts in this group that I
don't mind when it gets stuck in a rampid cross-post or some newbie asks how
to create those neat little clickable things in MS Windows.
Ok, so lets spark up a thread of our own. What are your least and most
favorite features about Icon? What would you change?
Personally, I'd like to see the &null value act as a general purpose
identity for all of the operators except when used as a procedure call. For
example:
1 + &null -> 1
1 * &null -> 0
'abc' ++ &null -> 'abc'
"foo" || &null -> "foo"
[1,2,3] ||| &null -> [1,2,3]
&null(1, 2, 3) -> Obscure Runtime Error: 169
I'd probably even extend this to other "operators" such as those that work
on lists, tables and sets.
Oh, and feel free to crosspost this to alt.babble.ted.nelson :)