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A small scheme VM

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Have you seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3r0cYRwrSs? Do you think this would help you any in your quest to get a working implementation?

tripleo1

Basic Examples Compiler Explanation

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Maybe if you have time you could explain how the compiler works (or is supposed to work), specifically for the two basic examples of factorial (or fibonacci) and hello world...

tripleo1

Data Inheritance

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http://c3d.github.io/xl/#data-inheritance I don't understand the difference between the two examples presented. Also, what is data inheritance (or am I looking too deep)?

tripleo1

Can't build native/HelloWorld

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Steps: ``` cd xl2/samples/HelloWorld cp ../../xl.syntax . cp ../../native/library/runtime/C/xl.bytecode . ../../bxl HelloWorld.xl > HelloWorld_native.cpp g++ -I../../ HelloWorld_native.cpp -o HelloWorld_native ``` gives: ``` /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccIKhQRM.o: in function `main': HelloWorld_native.cpp:(.text+0x112): undefined reference...

tripleo1

Nubie feedback - can't build

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Greetings, I am new to XL. Looks very interesting. I am running on a modern X86-64 Linux machine. I have run into the following two issues: 1. "configure" should be...

blakemcbride

Treat float literals as decimal float literals and not as binary float literals

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With decimal float literals finally making it into C23 (implemented 2021 and formally adopted in 2022) and seeing XL making significant changes in its basics incl. float literals, I'd like...

dumblob

Add Dockerfile so new users can quickly try out the language

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I decided to add a basic Dockerfile so new users can quickly try out the language without having to install dependencies. Currently, the Dockerfile starts the interpreter" (in quotes because...

Christopher-Chianelli

Generate lifetime values

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Lifetime is a [new concept](http://c3d.github.io/xl/#lifetime) in XL, inspired by the Rust ["borrow checker"](https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.8.0/book/references-and-borrowing.html), and destined to make it possible in XL to implement a wider class of borrow-checks from the...

c3d

NULL/nil/none/void/... value considered harmful (a "billion dollar mistake" of Tony Hoare)

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This post will be written with XL being conceptual language in mind. At some places it might sound differently, but I've chosen to use that terminology to be clear about...

dumblob

The factorial example in the README does not work as expected

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The README shows the following code for a program that compute the factorial of 1 to 5: ``` 0! is 1 N! is N * (N-1)! for I in 1..5...

Christopher-Chianelli