Carl Mäsak
Carl Mäsak
I'm still gradually reacting to the whole language. There is so much in it that shares goals with Alma. It's quite Dylan-like. But I think its macros are more general,...
Since I don't know where else to put this: David Moon believes [S-expressions are a bad idea](http://www.archub.org/arcsug.txt). (Search for "Dave Moon: S-expressions are a bad idea" in that document.) "More...
I'll just pop in and say that it's not obvious how we should do this. Needs more design.
Here's a first stab at a design: if a quasi is meant to become a function (taking as inputs the concrete epressions to fill the unquotes with and returning as...
Thank you, that's a good bit of feedback. I need to let it simmer for a while. For now, two things: * It's not clear to me that anyone is...
@vendethiel That makes a lot of sense. I will chalk that up as an argument for making unquoted operators maximally *loose*. I like the appeal to the AST being a...
The runtime now _exists_ as of 61081a2efec1594b441722f4d14b6497f51479c6... but it doesn't feel like scope creep to require it to have feature parity with `Runtime.pm`. Gonna close the ticket after that. The...
> The natural next step is to get all the relevant tests in the test suite to run against `runtime.007`. Stand by for that. Also done as of #142.
A small status report, because it occurs to me that a lot of the work on this issue might be hidden away in the commits themselves. Which is a pity,...
Pasting [BNF for Tcl](https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/BNF+for+Tcl) in here, as it seems very related in tone.