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<geri> hey, quick thought - i remember you didn't wanna have syntax highlighting in vip cause symbols can be anything, right? abu[7]
<geri> thought that from the other side, you don't want to cobble built-in symbols
<abu[7]> Yes
<geri> so yes, car can be a car, not the builtin but its not a good idea to do that for variables - you should be using Car instead
<geri> I'm not sure why you'd store "car" in an arbitrary list though
<abu[7]> T, it is not static
<abu[7]> I don't like it in C too
<abu[7]> I find it too verbose
<abu[7]> Also disabled it is Termux
<geri> i dont like verbose highlighting either, but if you get just enough its nice
<abu[7]> I agree
<abu[7]> depends
<geri> im not sure if comments + strings counts as "just enough", but imo it's in a pretty-nice-to-have territory
<geri> also just learned today that not only #{ }# exists but these are also nestable
<abu[7]> Could be an add-on in .viprc
<geri> yee
<abu[7]> eg. a list of symbols
<abu[7]> or better a fun
<geri> have you done anything for using enums to store lines?
<abu[7]> Not in Vip, but I just use it for lines in another context
<geri> like?
<abu[7]> text to speech
<geri> amazing
<abu[7]> PilBox repl
<abu[7]> Just playinm
<abu[7]> g
<abu[7]> Maybe make a GUI later
<abu[7]> I can listen to ebooks with that script
<geri> is it google translate voice tier or actually any good?
<abu[7]> It is a built-in Java class
<geri> question is how horrible is the voice generated
<abu[7]> "android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech"
<geri> also if you dont already, i recommend watching (informative) videos in double speed
<abu[7]> The voice is quite natural, but it does not understand the text
<abu[7]> so intonation is strange
<abu[7]> sometimes
<geri> fair
<geri> i got recommended so many books i feel like ill never finish them all
<abu[7]> :)
<geri> could you go into a bit more detail on what you lose when you decide to compile lisps?
<geri> (except making functions alter themselves cause they're just lists)
<abu[7]> It is a different machine
<abu[7]> Code is no longer data
<geri> code is code?
<abu[7]> only the source *looks* like data
<abu[7]> T
<abu[7]> Code is machine code now
<geri> that all applies to both byte and native compilers?
<abu[7]> Yes
<abu[7]> Can we continue another day?
<geri> np, im going to bed soon too
<abu[7]> Have some duties ;)
<geri> laters?
<abu[7]> Good ☺
<abu[7]> cu o/
<geri> o7
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