From: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
To: Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guile Lua
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:37:04 -0500 [thread overview]
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I sent an email about that, but it was only an idea. I thought it would be
nice if we could work with the Clisp people. However, I can see some
barriers to actually doing that, and I don't intend to work on it any time
soon.
Noah
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:51 +0100, Stefan Israelsson Tampe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > > In terms of strategy, I think Guile’s focus should remain primarily
> > on
> > > Scheme variants, and ELisp. Other language front-ends are of course
> > > welcome, but we must keep an eye on what the demand is.
> >
> > What about common lisp is scheme a lisp or is CL a scheme :-)
> >
>
> IIRC, someone raised the topic that emerge Clisp into Guile in 2011,
> but what's the status now?
>
> > Anyway to support CL I would think that we need to support placing
> > properties
> > on symbols, e,g. currently a symbol slot is a variable, but to
> > effectively support CL I would go for
> > /Stefan
> >
> >
> >
> > Den 21 nov 2012 14:26 skrev "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > nalaginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> skribis:
> >
> > > I switch to lua branch then compiled it and try, seems some
> > bugs there,
> > > it can't run successfully:
> > > -------------------cut--------------------
> > > scheme@(guile-user)> ,L lua
> > > Happy hacking with Lua! To switch back, type `,L scheme'.
> > > lua@(guile-user)> x=1
> >
> > Maybe you need a semicolon here?
> >
> > > And I checked the code, it doen't use Guile inner LALR
> > parser.
> > > Anybody point me out what is the suggested parser
> > implementation?
> >
> > (system base lalr).
> >
> > > And is there anyone ever evaluated the efficiency about the
> > non-scheme
> > > language implemented within Guile?
> >
> > I don’t think so. Only the Scheme and Emacs Lisp front-end
> > are
> > reasonably mature, anyway.
> >
> > > Anyway, this wouldn't be a big problem, since Guile could be
> > the
> > > future dynamic language compiler collection, it could be
> > optimized
> > > later.
> >
> > FWIW, I don’t quite buy the “dynamic language compiler
> > collection”.
> > Others tried this before (Parrot), with some success in terms
> > of
> > supported languages, but not much beyond that.
> >
> > In terms of strategy, I think Guile’s focus should remain
> > primarily on
> > Scheme variants, and ELisp. Other language front-ends are of
> > course
> > welcome, but we must keep an eye on what the demand is.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ludo’.
> >
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-12 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-17 16:30 Guile Lua Ian Price
2012-11-19 2:30 ` nalaginrut
2012-11-19 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-20 4:50 ` nalaginrut
2012-11-20 11:25 ` Ian Price
2012-11-20 17:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-21 2:40 ` nalaginrut
2012-11-21 3:20 ` nalaginrut
2012-11-21 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-21 15:51 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2013-01-12 8:43 ` Nala Ginrut
2013-01-12 14:37 ` Noah Lavine [this message]
2013-01-12 15:25 ` Nala Ginrut
2013-01-13 15:13 ` Ian Price
2013-01-14 20:51 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2013-01-14 21:02 ` Ian Price
2012-11-23 3:45 ` nalaginrut
2012-11-20 0:24 ` Ian Price
2012-11-20 6:12 ` Daniel Hartwig
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