* Remove uses of `car` and `cdr` in /hy
* Remove uses of `car` and `cdr` in quote tests
* Remove `car` and `cdr` in favor of `first` and `rest`
I beefed up the documentation and tests for `first` and `rest` while I was at it.
I defined `car` and `cdr` in native_tests.cons so the tests read a bit more naturally.
* with-decorator: Allow a `setv` form as the form to be decorated
This feature is of dubious value by itself, but it's necessary to allow `defn` to create a lambda instead of a `def`.
* Make `fn` work the same as `lambda`
That is, allow it to generate a `lambda` instead of a `def` statement if the function body is just an expression.
I've removed two uses of with_decorator in hy.compiler because they'd require adding another case to HyASTCompiler.compile_decorate_expression and they have no ultimate effect, anyway.
In a few tests, I've added a meaningless statement in `fn` bodies to force generation of a `def`.
I've removed `test_fn_compiler_empty_function` rather than rewrite it because it seems like a pain to maintain and not very useful.
* Remove `lambda`, now that `fn` does the same thing
You can use them as thousands separators.
This change differs from PEP 515 in that not only does it allow commas in addition to underscores, but it's much more liberal about placement. Any number of underscores or commas can be placed anywhere, even at the start.
Unlike Python, Hy allows the programmer to intermingle positional and keyword arguments. This change removes an exception to that rule for method calls, in which the method callee always had to be the first thing after the method. Thus, `(.split :sep "o" "foo")` now compiles to `"foo".split(sep="o")` instead of `HyKeyword("sep").split("o", "foo")`.
I don't see why you'd put this in the standard library. I guess it could be useful for when you're maintaining a library and you want to change the name of a function or macro but keep the old name around for a while so people's code doesn't break immediately. But that's a pretty limited purpose.
* Add comp, constantly and complement
relates #1176
* Fix composition order in comp
* comp without parameters returns identity
* Doc edits for comp, complement, constantly
* Test that `(comp)` returns `identity` exactly
* Simplify the `reduce` call in `comp`
* updated version of comp
I have some macros for using pandas and NumPy that expect : to be a keyword instead of an ordinary symbol. These tests will ensure that we don't break this unless we want to.
* added defmacro!
* revert #924#924 had an error and should never have been merged in the first place. (see #903)
* put back import getargspec
Without the `formatargspec` this time.
* Give better error message on failed macro expansion
Better error messages work most of the time. In cases where there are
parameters that aren't valid in Python, error message shown is rather
ugly. But this is better than no error messages at all and such
macros with strange parameter names are rather rare.
* fix flake8 errors
* Minor English improvements
Per the straw poll in #908, as an alternative to #1147.
Now you must use `True`, `False`, and `None`, as in Python. Or just assign `true` to `True`, etc.; the old synonyms aren't reserved words anymore.
In Python 2.x (range 10) is mapped to xrange(10) in Python
terms. However, xrange doesn't support slicing, which caused tests to
fail. By forxing xrange into list, we have slicing available.
