New E implementation: E-on-JavaScript
Kevin Reid <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.e.general |
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I have begun an E implementation which compiles to JavaScript code, suitable for running in web browsers. The source is at <svn://svn.synchrona.org/erights/e-on-javascript/trunk> It is designed to interoperate with Caja: If cajita.js is also loaded, E code can call Cajita-tamed objects; also, the output of the compiler should be within the Cajita subset (I have not tested this). It is as yet quite incomplete; especially, the compiler does not implement all of Kernel-E, and generates inefficient and verbose code. Trivial demo: <http://www.slimy.com/~kpreid/eojs/demo/> It supports converting an Updoc document into a HTML document such that the tests are executed. An example: <http://www.slimy.com/~kpreid/eojs/serve/vm.html> Not-yet-executed tests have dashed bars to the left, successful tests have light gray bars, and unsuccessful tests have red bars and show the expected and actual values (which are not differentiated except by color; this is to be fixed). As this Updoc was borrowed from E-on-CL, many of the tests fail because they are specific to E-on-CL in some way. Many other tests fail because there is no printing subsystem yet, so everything uses JS .toString() and thus the wrong syntax. -- Kevin Reid <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>