Comments on: Plotting in Lisp, Part III http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2005/07/18/plotting-in-lisp-part-iii/ Nonperiodic Central Trajectory Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:47:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Robert Goldman http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2005/07/18/plotting-in-lisp-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3146 Robert Goldman Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:36:57 +0000 /?p=191#comment-3146 One minor suggestion: perhaps you should aviod making the option arguments (e.g., "linespoints") be strings. If you do, then you can't do nice (eql 'foo) type dispatch in the methods, I believe. I think that might make writing methods somewhat less pleasant than if the option arguments are of some type that supports EQL-testing. One minor suggestion: perhaps you should aviod making the option arguments (e.g., “linespoints”) be strings. If you do, then you can’t do nice (eql ‘foo) type dispatch in the methods, I believe. I think that might make writing methods somewhat less pleasant than if the option arguments are of some type that supports EQL-testing.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2005/07/18/plotting-in-lisp-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3094 Anonymous Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:56:04 +0000 /?p=191#comment-3094 Inheritable titles? A series of plots which use the same x, y data lines, it would be a drag to name the title everytime, wouldn't it? default would be to use the title as defined at the top of code specific "title:" references will override the default Other things which crop up off the top of my head.... a) ways to squish/scale multiple plots to together. b) ways to read existing data files? c) emacs skeleton types(equivalent) to generate simple cases of lisp code for plotting. d) a default config file where default values can be read much like a .emacs file. Inheritable titles?

A series of plots which use the same x, y data lines, it would be a drag to name the title everytime, wouldn’t it?

default would be to use the title as defined at the top of code
specific “title:” references will override the default

Other things which crop up off the top of my head….

a) ways to squish/scale multiple plots to together.
b) ways to read existing data files?
c) emacs skeleton types(equivalent) to generate simple cases of lisp code for plotting.
d) a default config file where default values can be read much like a .emacs file.

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