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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com>
Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's the spec for emacs lisp virtual machine ?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:13:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763065df2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=ZurWSi7=Xqcb7kTDwuWvcKdPotFAomNgpEUz6@mail.gmail.com> (Fren Zeee's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:18:48 -0700")

Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com> writes:

> I have looked at some header and C files on the savannah site, not this one.
>
> I am waiting for a reply from the group and RMS on the earliest
> sources which were probably smaller also, like 13 to 16.56 which might
> be simpler for this newbie.
>
> What type of scanner does the Lisp parser and interpreter use ? Is it
> listed ? Is there a FSM state transition table drawn ?

From Emacs, do

  `C-h f read'
  `C-h f eval'

and follow the sources.  I don't think it's profitable to look at early
versions of Emacs; that's a wild goose chase.  The fact that the sources
are bigger now than in earlier versions is irrelevant, if you're only
going to be looking at the Lisp reader and interpreter.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-23  6:15 What's the spec for emacs lisp virtual machine ? Fren Zeee
2010-07-23  7:28 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-07-23 16:18   ` Fren Zeee
2010-07-23 17:13     ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-07-23  7:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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