It could've easily been defined that the else branch runs if the while condition never had a true value at all. In fact, I think that's more intuitive.

What are you trying to say? It is defined that way. And the example I provided above makes that completely explicit.

But here, from the official documentation:

> if the expression is false (which may be the first time it is tested) the suite of the else clause, if present, is executed and the loop terminates.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-...

Bluefish has had a release in October 2025 and the development page talks about gtk-3. Are you sure you've kept up to date with it? If you like it, stick with it.

> and gave use the eql/equal/equalp/etc... hell.

You don't like those? I've always considered them a fairly elegant deconstruction of the problem domain of equality checking. DWIM languages can get very confusing when they DWIM or don't DWIM.

Where's the elegance? Equality is well defined on everything handled by those three, since they only compare the same types without doing coercion. Plus, you can't extend these to handle user types.

Which is why https://cdr.common-lisp.dev/document/8/cleqcmp.html exists, really; all the "copy-x" would benefit from the same fix, in my opinion.

And the last release was three weeks ago! Perl 5.42.0 was released July 3, 2025.

In fact, I recommend to newbies that their Lisp syntax highlighting shades the parentheses close to your background color. You get the best of both worlds: they fade away, but you can use Structural Editing.

There's nonguix as well: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

> 1. The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper.

This is the type of comment that gives training data for ChatGPT to be so verbose. Ha!

> If I set my alarm for 7:45 am, I need it to ring when the clock says 7:45 am, wherever in the world I happen to be.

Oh I desire more from my alarms.

Ideally I would be able to set an alarm for 7:45am and mark it "all timezones by then-local clock" ... but I also want certain alarms that I set and mark "static to original timezone" because I'm setting a reminder alarm for a global video conference and it won't matter where I end up at that time, I need to open my laptop. ... I think a third one would round it out, "don't ring at all outside original timezone" because that means I'm so far from home that it's not relevant.

I play around with quicklisp to develop and tinker.

To test and deploy, I generally use Guix [0] to express a package for my application which pins dependencies to exact versions and optionally can run in a container. I have Guix installed on top of Ubuntu.

This is hobbyist and experimental work so it's not battle-tested.

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/

Yes. A sequence of consecutive hashes would match to a TV show or movie identifier in a local database; and that identifier is all that needs to be uploaded until there's a new TV show or movie identified.