... Very cool stuff. I am now beginning to play around with a Joy implementation in Scheme. The current C implementation is usable, but it is not beautiful...
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phimvt@...
phimvt
May 9, 2003 6:36 am
... It was pointed out to me that the top-of-page banner and the botton-of-page banner make some of my web pages hard to read. History: For years I have been...
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phimvt@...
phimvt
May 9, 2003 7:36 am
I think we should first specify what an accumulator is supposed to do. Here is an all too vague attempt: An accumulator "contains"; a current value, and it ...
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phimvt@...
phimvt
May 9, 2003 9:46 am
On Thu, 8 May 2003, John Cowan wrote: [...] ... Alas, yes. I have on occasions thought about a cleaner and more flexible implementation, but it is all rather...
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Stevan Apter
sa@...
May 9, 2003 2:08 pm
dear colleagues is there a joy .exe for windows? at work, and at home, i'm running NT. as things stand, i don't have a c compiler (and even if i did, i...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 9, 2003 2:21 pm
... Someone sent me an executable, dated 5 June 2001, so it does not have the latest fixes. The URL is http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/joy1.exe ; feel free to copy...
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Stevan Apter
sa@...
May 9, 2003 4:07 pm
thanks john. finally, i'm able to actually run joy ... ... From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003...
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wtanksleyjr@...
wtanksle
May 9, 2003 4:52 pm
From: phimvt@... ... I think the specification was pretty clear that every accumulator has to be a function; quotations are arguably...
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Nick Forde
nickf42uk
May 9, 2003 6:30 pm
... I agree. I'm still getting my head around it! ... Great. A Scheme implementation would be much more elegant than the current C interpreter, although...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 9, 2003 9:28 pm
... Well, it depends on your environment: Unixes tend to come with gcc but not Scheme, so there is that hurdle to get over; still, the RPM package and the...
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John Hodge
cyfododd
May 9, 2003 11:24 pm
... to C ... more ... but not ... and ... [snip] Have you checked out Bigloo Scheme? I believe it is compiled directly into C. It's free, has .rpm's for...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 10, 2003 12:29 am
... Excellent point. When I get the implemention done in Petite, I'll grab Bigloo and generate myself some C. ... Exactly what I have in mind: (j 32 45 +) ...
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Ben
gnomon027
May 10, 2003 12:50 am
... [snip] ... Ah, finally something I'm qualified to speak about around here ;) (1996) http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/imp/siod.html (1997)...
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John Hodge
cyfododd
May 10, 2003 1:31 am
... grab ... that ... to ... Great! The chapter on embedding Prolog is toward the back of the book ;) Amazingly, Graham implements the entire language in a...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 10, 2003 4:03 am
... I sure don't see any way to do it using only R5RS hygienic macros. So far my only deviation from R5RS is that in the Chez implementation symbols have...
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Steven Shaw
steshaw
May 10, 2003 4:23 am
... know ... Pretty sure the most up-to-date page is http://people.delphiforums.com/gjc/siod.html. Another Scheme implementation in a similar vein is Gauche....
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 10, 2003 4:58 am
... Ah, thanks. As someone else said, not even R4RS here. ... Excellent. ... Even better! -- Is a chair finely made tragic or comic? Is the John...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 13, 2003 8:28 pm
I am happy to announce that I have a working Joy interpreter implemented in Scheme. Version 0.2 can be downloaded from http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/joy.ss . The...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 14, 2003 8:26 pm
Okay, another day, another version. This one implements modules. The syntax is: (joy-module module1 private (joy-define foo bar baz) public (joy-define abc...
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John Hodge
cyfododd
May 14, 2003 8:37 pm
[snip] ... I'll be looking at it closely tonight. Try to get back to you tonight also. --Hodge...
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John Hodge
cyfododd
May 14, 2003 8:42 pm
... Is this at the same location as version 2? Same filename? --Hodge...
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Heiko.Kuhrt@...
heikuh
May 15, 2003 1:19 am
... Hello John, I think it works very well! ... (define hashtable (make-hash-table)) (define (getprop key hash default) (hash-table-get hashtable key ...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 15, 2003 2:12 am
... Yes, always. -- Yes, chili in the eye is bad, but so is your John Cowan ear. However, I would suggest you wash your jcowan@... hands...
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John Carter
refactored
May 15, 2003 3:55 am
... Now all I need is a Scheme interpretor in Joy, then I can die happy... Now there's a project. Take Manfred's minimal self interpreting Joy. Find/write a...
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John Hodge
cyfododd
May 15, 2003 1:43 pm
... I couldn't find any errors running it in Chez Scheme. When I tried to compile it with Bigloo, there seemed to be some minor snag with the macro...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 15, 2003 7:07 pm
Thanks to Francis Norton, who did the work, I now have a refreshed version of joy1.exe at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/joy1.exe . This one was compiled on May...
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sa@...
May 15, 2003 8:50 pm
thanks again - it sure is nice to run joy on a physical machine, rather than on what is merely the ghost within one. sa - Thanks to Francis Norton, who did the...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 16, 2003 3:40 am
... Maybe, maybe not. :-) I ran it successfully under the Chicken interpreter, but I haven't had a chance to try the Chicken compiler yet (which uses C as...
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francisnorton
May 16, 2003 8:02 am
I've been going throught the Informal Tutorial and I have a slight problem with constr12 operator, which doesn't seem to be implemented in either the core...
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John Cowan
johnwcowan
May 16, 2003 12:42 pm
... Thanks. It wouldn't surprise me if there were bugs in "step" (or any other primitive, for that matter). -- De plichten van een docent zijn divers,...
