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Top Forums Programming Lisp Post 302176460 by drl on Tuesday 18th of March 2008 10:01:21 AM

03-18-2008

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Hi.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ramen_noodle

Thanks folks. It is an elegant programming language and may become one of my staples. If it's not widely used in production..well, I'm sure the reasons are
conventional rather than pragmatic.

Looking at comparisons at The Computer Language Benchmarks Game I would say the reasons are very pragmatic, at least in regard to resource usage -- CPU and memory.

Still, I think almost any language can help you think in ways that are useful in crafting solutions to problems in general. As noted in PBS presentations on the brain, new challenges can help keep your brain "plastic" ... cheers, drl

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urn-scheme

uri_urn(n)					    Tcl Uniform Resource Identifier Management						uri_urn(n)

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NAME

       uri_urn - URI utilities, URN scheme

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.2

       package require uri::urn  ?1.1.2?

       uri::urn::quote url

       uri::urn::unquote url

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DESCRIPTION

       This  package  provides two commands to quote and unquote the disallowed characters for url using the urn scheme, registers the scheme with
       the package uri, and provides internal helpers which will be automatically used by the commands uri::split and uri::join of package uri	to
       handle urls using the urn scheme.

COMMANDS

       uri::urn::quote url
	      This command quotes the characters disallowed by the urn scheme (per RFC 2141 sec2.2) in the url and returns the modified url as its
	      result.

       uri::urn::unquote url
	      This commands performs the reverse of ::uri::urn::quote. It takes an urn url, removes the quoting from  all  disallowed  characters,
	      and returns the modified urls as its result.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This  document,	and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category uri of
       the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you  may  have  for
       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       rfc 2141, uri, url, urn

CATEGORY

       Networking

uri								       1.1.2								uri_urn(n)