Re: mixing lush with clush

Yann LeCun <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:47:15 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lush.devel
Organization Courant Institute, NYU
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I was suggesting DXs\DYs instead of DHs because they are simple
> enough so that I can understand them. The "type-info extensions"
> that I was dreaming of would probably reproduce much of what's
> in the DH/DHDOC machinery today minus some fancy stuff for escape
> analysis and what not. But again the DH stuff is very complicated
> and it might be easier to start from scratch.
>
> Another thing that I think is wrong with the DH compiler is the
> way the compilable functions are currently coded (you find them
> compiler/dh-macro). It's unreadable, hard to maintain code.

The DH themselves aren't too bad, but writing a compiler macro
for an existing DX/DY function is more complicated than it should.

The main advantage of the DX/DY/compiler macro way is that
they can handle polymorphism, while DHs can't do that at 
the moment.

  -- Yann



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