By default, calling the Python REPL without arguments causes
sys.argv to be a non-empty list with an empty string, and some
modules (e.g., pyNN) rely on that.
A couple of more macros:
hy> (--each-while [1 2 3 4 5] (< it 3) (print it))
1
2
3
hy>
```--each-while``` continues to evaluate the body form while the
predicate form is true for each element in the list.
```--map-when``` uses a predicate form to determine when to apply the
map form upon the element in the list:
hy> (list (--map-when (even? it) (* it 3) [1 2 3 4]))
[1, 6, 3, 12]
Anaphoric macros reduce the need to specify a lambda by binding a
special name in a form passed as a parameter to the macro. This allows
you to write more concise code:
(= (list (--filter (even? it) [1 2 3 4])) [2 4])
This patch just adds a few basic ones. Other forms that can be
converted to anaphoric versions include reduce, remove, enumerate,
etc.
This gets rid of the dichotomy between bootstrap.py and macros.hy,
by making both files hy modules.
I added some error checking to make the macros more resilient. The
biggest (user-visible) change is the change in cond, which now only
accepts lists as arguments. Tests updated accordingly.
Closes: #176 (whoops, no more bootstrap)
There was a couple of duplicate imports and type checkings in the
codebase. So I added a new module to unify all Python 2 and 3
compatibility codes.
Also, this is a somewhat common pattern in Python. See Jinja2 for
example:
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/blob/master/jinja2/_compat.py
This rounds out the first pass at a set of core functions, adding
some that were not in the first PR.
From here I'm working on a contrib.seq and contrib.io module to
hold less obvious but maybe interesting native functions that can
move to core if desired.
This should also close out issure #150 asking for some core
functions like these.
This will let us use (basic) yield from behavior from Python 2. This
isn't complete, and is low-hanging fruit for others willing to hack
on hy.
I've also changed the macrosystem to allow for proper bootstrapping.
This is similar to how it's done elsewhere in the codebase (stdlib
stuff).
