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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> W/A or maybe extra ones like the one that gets piped to Visual's output window?</p>
<p>i like that the MSDN example for using FormatMessage is using printf to handle the error returned by it</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> just a small joke about using man for windows syscalls</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@iaotsam" class="u-url mention">@<span>iaotsam</span></a></span> what</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> why not just<br />man 2 CloseHandle<br />?</p>
<p>i also figured out that WinNT allocates three standard I/O handles, but Wine allocates six of them for some reason, which is mildly interesting</p>
<p>the windows nt equivalent of Lucky Star episode 1 is a 15 minute discussion i've just had on whether you should be using</p><p> if (hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)<br /> CloseHandle(hFile);</p><p>or </p><p> CloseHandle(hFile);</p><p>which involved disassembling kernelbase.dll and ntoskrnl.exe</p><p>(the answer is that you should use the former because CloseHandle retains last error code iff the result is STATUS_SUCCESS)</p>
<p>Now, since *I'm* the one writing this LISP, I do get to make some changes. The main thing I wanted to change, as it's the #1 thing that infuriates me writing LISP, is parentheses. This "LISP" has a syntax where each line (as separated by newlines or commas) implicitly has () around it. Meanwhile, {} and [] are shorthand, for</p><p>{x,y,z} => '((x)(y)(z))</p><p>[x,y,z] => (make-array [(x),(y),(z)])</p><p>In other words {} is functions (quoted lists) and [] is array literals.</p><p>Is this still a LISP? I don't care!</p>
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