Re: ASTs

And http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/Projects/dexprs.pdf may be useful ...
but it isn't clear how directly that maps to what is actually happening
within the compiler. :)

The joys of software archeology ... if only Jonathan Bachrach or Keith
Playford were still around.

 - Bruce


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Mitchener
<[email protected]>wrote:

> One thing that you'll definitely run into is some compiler-only syntax for
> fragments:
>
>   #{ make(<suffixed-macro-descriptor>,
>           word-class: ?word-class,
>           suffix:     "-definer",
>           expander-function: ?expander-name) }
>
> These create fragments and are used in many places within dfmc, mainly
> when generating code, but also when expanding definitions.
>
> There is also a macro-case which lets you match patterns and are useful
> for crossing the bridge between values and fragments.
>
> I'm not sure who actually understands this stuff ... I only know bits and
> pieces of it from reading code.
>
>  - Bruce
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM, mikel evins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:53 AM, Bruce Mitchener wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, mikel evins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Obviously, the goal is to rurn the Bard sketch into a real
>> implementation of a readtable-based reader that generates ASTs in
>> OpenDylan's native format. The obvious question to ask is, "where can I
>> find out more about the native format of OpenDylan's ASTs?"
>> >
>> > A good place to start is the Hacker's Guide:
>> >
>> >
>> http://opendylan.org/documentation/hacker-guide/compiler-internals.html#dfmc-reader
>> >
>> > This document needs a lot of improvement, but it might be a useful
>> start...
>>
>> Great! Thanks.
>> _______________________________________________
>> hackers mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers
>>
>
>

_______________________________________________
hackers mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers