Re: Fwd: Dylan stuff

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Mitchener
<[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
>

@bigthingist on Twitter pointed out to me that taking a look at what Goo
did would be a good idea. Goo uses s-expressions and was designed by one of
the Dylan implementors.

Also, I found one of the Dylan Design notes that gave their proposed syntax
for return values from methods:

(define-method floor/ ((numerator <small-integer>)
                       (denominator <small-integer>)
                       #values  (quotient <integer>)
                                (remainder <small-integer>))
  ...)


I'll probably take a stab at listing out the various forms and what they
looked like ...

 - Bruce

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