Christophe de Dinechin

Interesting idea. I wonder if the problem is not what default representation for real, ie should it be binary or decimal. Note that decimal FP has other issues (e.g. correct...

> On 10 Jun 2021, at 21:21, dumblob ***@***.***> wrote: > > > Newbie here. I've just read the XL history and I'm still a bit confused about state of...

I'm not sure how much detail you want. - In the `bxl` variant (xl2 subtree), the parse tree would be progressively rewritten using `translate` statements, until it was lowered to...

Don't let the superficial syntax similarity fool you. XL is not evaluating things the way Prolog does, at least not by default. This is because Prolog's backtracking, while very practical...

Hi @tripleo1. There is already a working implementation of XL, that's -O0 as implemented in interpreter.cpp. It is working in the sense that passes the whole test suite. Now, of...

@dumblob Thanks a lot for the thoughts. I cannot address all of it in a timely fashion, so I'll try to focus on a few essential aspects. Feel free to...

Hi Christopher, Thank you. You are correct. The binding of the variable in `for` loop is presently broken, and unfortunately, is likely to remain so for a few months 😦....

In order to show what some earlier implementations of the `for` loop used to look like, see [this commit](https://github.com/c3d/xl/commit/47b150dceff230c3fb7f14ab020bdae430bd3d9b)

The first example is the _interface_ for the type: ``` type colored_text like text with foreground : color background : color ``` What this means is that when you _use_...

Hi Christopher, I think it's a very good idea, but it's way too early in my opinion for people not interested in working on developing the interpreter or compiler to...