Re: Fwd: Dylan stuff
Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:55 PM, mikel evins <[email protected]> wrote: > My immediate goals are very modest: write some code that enables me to > write s-expression-based Dylan again, then get a good repl going that uses > that syntax. If we get that far, I'll be pretty happy. Past that point, the > sky's the limit, as long as we all like working on it. > It might be worth using a page on the GitHub wiki or something to list out thoughts / possibilities for s-expression syntax and keep track of known issues. As for a REPL, that's pretty much an entirely separate undertaking ... and also very interesting in its own right. One possibility is to use the (under development) LLVM backend, another is to interpret some intermediate stage from the compiler, another is to construct a JIT using DynASM from LuaJIT. There also used to be a DFMC backend for the "IDVM" or "In-Dylan VM". There's a lot of interesting ground to cover there... > As I said, if it was up to me, I'd write a Lisp-style reader with support > for reader macros, rather than writing another grammar like the one > currently in OpenDylan. The Lisp reader is a very useful tool. If you're doing the work, it probably is up to you (within reason). :) - Bruce _______________________________________________ hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers