*Tmp
- A global variable holding the temporary directory name created with
tmp. See also *Bye.
: *Bye
-> ((saveHistory) (and *Tmp (call 'rm "-r" *Tmp)))
: (tmp "foo" 123)
-> "/home/app/.pil/tmp/27140/foo123"
: *Tmp
-> "/home/app/.pil/tmp/27140/"
*Tsm
- A global variable which may hold a cons pair of two strings with escape
sequences, to switch on and off an alternative transient symbol markup. If set,
print will output these sequences to
the console instead of the standard double quote markup characters.
: (de *Tsm "^[[4m" . "^[[24m") # vt100 escape sequences for underline
-> *Tsm
: Hello world
-> Hello world
: (off *Tsm)
-> NIL
: "Hello world" # No underlining
-> "Hello world"
+Time
- Class for clock time values (as calculated by
time), a subclass of +Number. See also Database.
(rel tim (+Time)) # Time of the day
T
- A global constant, evaluating to itself.
T is commonly returned
as the boolean value "true" (though any non-NIL values could be
used). It represents the absolute maximum, as it is larger than any other
object. As a property key, it is used to store Pilog clauses, and inside Pilog clauses it is the
cut operator. See also NIL and
and Comparing.
: T
-> T
: (= 123 123)
-> T
: (get 'not T)
-> ((@P (1 -> @P) T (fail)) (@P))
This
- Holds the current object during method execution (see OO Concepts), or inside the body of a
with statement. As it is a normal symbol,
however, it can be used in normal bindings anywhere. See also isa, :,
=:, :: and var:.
: (with 'X (println 'This 'is This))
This is X
-> X
: (put 'X 'a 1)
-> 1
: (put 'X 'b 2)
-> 2
: (put 'Y 'a 111)
-> 111
: (put 'Y 'b 222)
-> 222
: (mapcar '((This) (cons (: a) (: b))) '(X Y))
-> ((1 . 2) (111 . 222))
(t . prg) -> T
- Executes
prg, and returns T. See also nil, prog, prog1 and prog2.
: (t (println 'OK))
OK
-> T
(tab 'lst 'any ..) -> NIL
- Print all
any arguments in a tabular format. lst
should be a list of numbers, specifying the field width for each argument. All
items in a column will be left-aligned for negative numbers, otherwise
right-aligned. See also align,
center and wrap.
: (let Fmt (-3 14 14)
(tab Fmt "Key" "Rand 1" "Rand 2")
(tab Fmt "---" "------" "------")
(for C '(A B C D E F)
(tab Fmt C (rand) (rand)) ) )
Key Rand 1 Rand 2
--- ------ ------
A 0 1481765933
B -1062105905 -877267386
C -956092119 812669700
D 553475508 -1702133896
E 1344887256 -1417066392
F 1812158119 -1999783937
-> NIL
(tail 'cnt|lst 'lst) -> lst
- Returns the last
cnt elements of lst. If
cnt is negative, it is added to the length of lst. If
the first argument is a lst, tail is a predicate
function returning that argument list if it is equal to the tail of
the second argument, and NIL otherwise. (tail -2 Lst)
is equivalent to (nth Lst 3). See also offset, head, last and stem.
: (tail 3 '(a b c d e f))
-> (d e f)
: (tail -2 '(a b c d e f))
-> (c d e f)
: (tail 0 '(a b c d e f))
-> NIL
: (tail 10 '(a b c d e f))
-> (a b c d e f)
: (tail '(d e f) '(a b c d e f))
-> (d e f)
(task 'num ['num] [sym 'any ..] [. prg]) -> lst
- A front-end to the
*Run global. If
called with only a single num argument, the corresponding entry is
removed from the value of *Run. Otherwise, a new entry is created.
If an entry with that key already exists, an error is issued. For negative
numbers, a second number must be supplied. If sym/any
arguments are given, a job environment
is built for thie *Run entry. See also forked and timeout.
: (task -10000 5000 N 0 (msg (inc 'N))) # Install task
-> (-10000 5000 (job '((N . 0)) (msg (inc 'N)))) # for every 10 seconds
: 1 # ... after 5 seconds
2 # ... after 10 seconds
3 # ... after 10 seconds
(task -10000) # remove again
-> NIL
: (task (port T 4444) (eval (udp @))) # Receive RPC via UDP
-> (3 (eval (udp @)))
# Another session (on the same machine)
: (udp "localhost" 4444 '(println *Pid)) # Send RPC message
-> (println *Pid)
(telStr 'sym) -> sym
- Formats a telephone number according to the current
locale. If the string head matches the local
country code, it is replaced with 0, otherwise + is
prepended. See also expTel, datStr, money and format.
: (telStr "49 1234 5678-0")
-> "+49 1234 5678-0"
: (locale "DE" "de")
-> NIL
: (telStr "49 1234 5678-0")
-> "01234 5678-0"
(tell ['cnt] 'sym ['any ..]) -> any
- Family IPC: Send an executable list
(sym any ..) to all family
members (i.e. all children of the current process, and all other children of the
parent process, see fork) for
automatic execution. When the cnt argument is given and non-zero,
it should be the PID of such a process, and the list will be sent only to that
process. tell is also used internally by commit to notify about database changes. When
called without arguments, no message is actually sent, and the parent process
may grant sync to the next waiting
process. See also hear.
: (call 'ps "x") # Show processes
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
..
1321 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/picolisp .. # Parent process
1324 pts/0 S 0:01 /usr/bin/picolisp .. # First child
1325 pts/0 S 0:01 /usr/bin/picolisp .. # Second child
1326 pts/0 R 0:00 ps x
-> T
: *Pid # We are the second child
-> 1325
: (tell 'println '*Pid) # Ask all others to print their Pid's
1324
-> *Pid
(test 'any . prg)
- Executes
prg, and issues an error if the result does not match the any argument. See also
assert.
: (test 12 (* 3 4))
-> NIL
: (test 12 (+ 3 4))
((+ 3 4))
12 -- 'test' failed
?
(text 'any1 'any ..) -> sym
- Builds a new transient symbol (string) from the string representation of
any1, by replacing all occurrences of an at-mark "@",
followed by one of the letters "1" through "9", and
"A" through "Z", with the corresponding
any argument. In this context "@A" refers to the 10th
argument. A literal at-mark in the text can be represented by two successive
at-marks. See also pack and glue.
: (text "abc @1 def @2" 'XYZ 123)
-> "abc XYZ def 123"
: (text "a@@bc.@1" "de")
-> "a@bc.de"
(tim$ 'tim ['flg]) -> sym
- Formats a
time tim.
If flg is NIL, the format is HH:MM, otherwise it is
HH:MM:SS. See also $tim and dat$.
: (tim$ (time))
-> "10:57"
: (tim$ (time) T)
-> "10:57:56"
(timeout ['num])
- Sets or refreshes a timeout value in the
*Run global, so that the current process
executes bye after the given period. If
called without arguments, the timeout is removed. See also task.
: (timeout 3600000) # Timeout after one hour
-> (-1 3600000 (bye))
: *Run # Look after a few seconds
-> ((-1 3574516 (bye)))
(throw 'sym 'any)
- Non-local jump into a previous
catch environment with the jump label
sym (or T as a catch-all). Any pending finally expressions are executed, local
symbol bindings are restored, open files are closed and internal data structures
are reset appropriately, as the environment was at the time when the
corresponding catch was called. Then any is returned
from that catch. See also quit.
: (de foo (N)
(println N)
(throw 'OK) )
-> foo
: (let N 1 (catch 'OK (foo 7)) (println N))
7
1
-> 1
(tick (cnt1 . cnt2) . prg) -> any
- Executes
prg, then (destructively) adds the number of elapsed
user ticks to the cnt1 parameter, and the number of elapsed system
ticks to the cnt2 parameter. Thus, cnt1 and
cnt2 will finally contain the total number of user and system time
ticks spent in prg and all functions called (this works also for
recursive functions). For execution profiling, tick is usually
inserted into words with prof, and removed with
unprof. See also usec.
: (de foo () # Define function with empty loop
(tick (0 . 0) (do 100000000)) )
-> foo
: (foo) # Execute it
-> NIL
: (pp 'foo)
(de foo NIL
(tick (97 . 0) (do 100000000)) ) # 'tick' incremented 'cnt1' by 97
-> foo
(till 'any ['flg]) -> lst|sym
- Reads from the current input channel till a character contained in
any is found (or until end of file if any is
NIL). If flg is NIL, a list of
single-character transient symbols is returned. Otherwise, a single string is
returned. See also from and line.
: (till ":")
abc:def
-> ("a" "b" "c")
: (till ":" T)
abc:def
-> "abc"
(time ['T]) -> tim
(time 'tim) -> (h m s)
(time 'h 'm ['s]) -> tim | NIL
(time '(h m [s])) -> tim | NIL
- Calculates the time of day, represented as the number of seconds since
midnight. When called without arguments, the current local time is returned.
When called with a
T argument, the time of the last call to
date is returned. When called with a
single number tim, it is taken as a time value and a list with the
corresponding hour, minute and second is returned. When called with two or three
numbers (or a list of two or three numbers) for the hour, minute (and optionally
the second), the corresponding time value is returned (or NIL if
they do not represent a legal time). See also date, stamp, usec, tim$ and $tim.
: (time) # Now
-> 32334
: (time 32334) # Now
-> (8 58 54)
: (time 25 30) # Illegal time
-> NIL
(tmp ['any ..]) -> sym
- Returns the path name to the
packed any arguments in a
process-local temporary directory. The directory name consists of the path to
".pil/tmp/" in the user's home directory, followed by the current process ID
*Pid. This directory is automatically
created if necessary, and removed upon termination of the process (bye). See also pil, *Tmp and *Bye .
: *Pid
-> 27140
: (tmp "foo" 123)
-> "/home/app/.pil/tmp/27140/foo123"
: (out (tmp "foo" 123) (println 'OK))
-> OK
: (dir (tmp))
-> ("foo123")
: (in (tmp "foo" 123) (read))
-> OK
tolr/3
- Pilog predicate that succeeds if the first
argument is either a substring or a
+Sn soundex match of the result of
applying the get algorithm to the
following arguments. Typically used as filter predicate in select/3 database queries. See also
isa/2, same/3, bool/3, range/3, head/3, fold/3 and part/3.
: (?
@Nr (1 . 5)
@Nm "Sven"
(select (@CuSu)
((nr +CuSu @Nr) (nm +CuSu @Nm))
(range @Nr @CuSu nr)
(tolr @Nm @CuSu nm) )
(val @Name @CuSu nm) )
@Nr=(1 . 5) @Nm="Sven" @CuSu={2-2} @Name="Seven Oaks Ltd."
(touch 'sym) -> sym
- When
sym is an external symbol, it is marked as "modified" so
that upon a later commit it will be
written to the database file. An explicit call of touch is only
necessary when the value or properties of sym are indirectly
modified.
: (get '{2} 'lst)
-> (1 2 3 4 5)
: (set (cdr (get (touch '{2}) 'lst)) 999) # Only read-access, need 'touch'
-> 999
: (get '{2} 'lst) # Modified second list element
-> (1 999 3 4 5)
(trace 'sym) -> sym
(trace 'sym 'cls) -> sym
(trace '(sym . cls)) -> sym
- Inserts a
$ trace function call at
the beginning of the function or method body of sym, so that trace
information will be printed before and after execution. Built-in functions
(C-function pointer) are automatically converted to Lisp expressions (see
expr). See also *Dbg, traceAll and untrace, debug and lint.
: (trace '+)
-> +
: (+ 3 4)
+ : 3 4
+ = 7
-> 7
(traceAll ['lst]) -> sym
- Traces all Lisp level functions by inserting a
$ function call at the beginning. lst
may contain symbols which are to be excluded from that process. In addition, all
symbols in the global variable *NoTrace are excluded. See also
trace, untrace and *Dbg.
: (traceAll) # Trace all Lisp level functions
-> balance
(tree 'var 'cls ['hook]) -> tree
- Returns a data structure specifying a database index tree.
var
and cls determine the relation, with an optional hook
object. See also root, fetch, store, count, leaf, minKey, maxKey, init, step, scan, iter, prune, zapTree and chkTree.
: (tree 'nm '+Item)
-> (nm . +Item)
(trim 'lst) -> lst
- Returns a copy of
lst with all trailing whitespace characters
or NIL elements removed. See also clip.
: (trim (1 NIL 2 NIL NIL))
-> (1 NIL 2)
: (trim '(a b " " " "))
-> (a b)
true/0
- Pilog predicate that always succeeds. See also
fail/0 and repeat/0.
: (? (true))
-> T
(try 'msg 'obj ['any ..]) -> any
- Tries to send the message
msg to the object obj,
optionally with arguments any. If obj is not an
object, or if the message cannot be located in obj, in its classes
or superclasses, NIL is returned. See also OO Concepts, send, method, meth, super and extra.
: (try 'msg> 123)
-> NIL
: (try 'html> 'a)
-> NIL
(type 'any) -> lst
- Return the type (list of classes) of the object
sym. See also
OO Concepts, isa, class, new and object.
: (type '{1A;3})
(+Address)
: (type '+DnButton)
-> (+Tiny +Rid +JS +Able +Button)