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Marco Antoniotti

Dear Edgar,

you have the gift of eloquence and moderation. I don't

Not only that is good. It is good citizenship. I DO NOT WANT to have 42 WHILE macros (and, of course, AIF and friends are to be dalekized :mrgreen: ) in my environment because I load 42 different libraries from 42 different authors who just couldn't help having their home brewed WHILE instead of usi...

Ananphoric macros mus die!

I used to use special home-brewed little thingies. Now I know better and write everything in a "as-vanilla-as-you-can" style. I also get annoyed by the gratuitous use of non standard and difficult to understand regular macros; specialized syntax-altering reader macros are even more annoyin...

Looks like you need help on Autolisp for the Autodesk products. I may be wrong, but I believe that this forum does not have many Autolisp programmers following it (I am not one, for example).

You'd be better off looking for some Autolisp specific venue.

Ciao

Marco

I know better ways to indulge in masochistic fetishes

Define "length of a number". For INTEGERs it is one thing, for floating point numbers not so easy.

In any case, you have INTEGER-LENGTH in ANSI, which may or may not be of use.

Yep. The PRETTY-PRINTER is quite a piece of software/api. Of course I blogged about it too http://within-parens.blogspot.it/2011/0 ... -xhtm.html

One of my favorites is DEFSTRUCT constructors. I blogged about it some time ago (gosh! quite some time ago) http://within-parens.blogspot.it/2011/02/constructor-tricks.html . It turns out that you can do even trickier tricks with DEFSTRUCT constructors, as Pascal Costanza just pointed out at ELS 201...