descibe how property lists could be used in order to represent the
infomation that daffodils are yellow and belong to a group of plants called
bulbs. What is then necessary to retrieve this information?
"Kim Yongsik" <········@lycos.co.kr> writes:
> descibe how property lists could be used in order to represent the
> infomation that daffodils are yellow and belong to a group of plants
> called bulbs.
A plist is a list of key/value pairs. Consider:
(color blue parent plants)
> What is then necessary to retrieve this information?
The function you'll probably want to use is GET. You can use SETF
with GET.
dave
In article <···················@news2.bora.net>, "Kim Yongsik"
<········@lycos.co.kr> wrote:
> descibe how property lists could be used in order to represent the
> infomation that daffodils are yellow and belong to a group of plants called
> bulbs. What is then necessary to retrieve this information?
Is this homework? If yes, it is considered good style in this
newsgroup not to answer those questions. Especially if
they are written like yours. Also one should know that
a lot of university teachers are reading comp.lang.lisp . ;-)
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* "Kim Yongsik" <········@lycos.co.kr>
| descibe how property lists could be used in order to represent the
| infomation that daffodils are yellow and belong to a group of plants
| called bulbs. What is then necessary to retrieve this information?
Please provide the e-mail address of your instructor so we get
credit for answering his homework assignments, and you don't.
What does it take to make people understand that USENET is not for
solving their homework for them? Using them for target practice?
#:Erik
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In our last episode (Sat, 07 Oct 2000 16:40:05 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Kim Yongsik said:
>descibe how property lists could be used in order to represent the
>infomation that daffodils are yellow and belong to a group of plants called
>bulbs. What is then necessary to retrieve this information?
I'm sure various folk here would be glad to help; in order that academic
credit be properly assigned, could you pass on the email address of your
instructor so we can direct our answers there directly.
It would also be useful if you provided the date when the assignment
is due so that we know to assign the proper urgency to the timing of
assistance.
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branches, collars are turned up against a wind which murmurs of
winter, and homework assignments appear on Usenet. <sigh>"
-- <······@galileo.rhein-neckar.de> Andre Fachat
········@knuth.brownes.org (Christopher Browne) writes:
> I'm sure various folk here would be glad to help; in order that
> academic credit be properly assigned, could you pass on the email
> address of your instructor so we can direct our answers there
> directly.
Yeah, but for this question, there's you're just giving him/her some
pointers on which functions to use. Sometimes, people just need a
hand at getting started.
For example, suggesting the CL Hyperspec, and a section where they
discuss plists, could be useful to this person, and would not count as
cheating according to most people.
dave
David Bakhash wrote:
> For example, suggesting the CL Hyperspec, and a section where they
> discuss plists, could be useful to this person, and would not count as
> cheating according to most people.
Decent schools require the ability of identifying and opening technical
references. So do decent jobs. Why do we have to be creative about
where cheating begins.
Robert
In our last episode (Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:02:27 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Robert Monfera said:
>David Bakhash wrote:
>
>> For example, suggesting the CL Hyperspec, and a section where they
>> discuss plists, could be useful to this person, and would not count as
>> cheating according to most people.
>
>Decent schools require the ability of identifying and opening technical
>references. So do decent jobs. Why do we have to be creative about
>where cheating begins.
I suppose it is probably fair to say something like
"There does exist the Common Lisp HyperSpec; a modicum of research
should be sufficient to locate it and the useful information
therein."
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Avoid unnecessary branches.
"Kim Yongsik" <········@lycos.co.kr> writes:
> descibe how property lists could be used in order to represent the
> infomation that daffodils are yellow and belong to a group of plants called
> bulbs. What is then necessary to retrieve this information?
I believe the first step would be to go to your instructor and tell
him/her that (Common) Lisp has grown way beyond Lisp 1.5.
Cheers
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