Outlet: My Lisp to Javascript Experiment(jlongster.com)
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Outlet: My Lisp to Javascript Experiment
http://jlongster.com/2012/01/04/outlet-my-lisp-to-javascript-experiment.html
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Very nice! What deviations do you plan to make from Scheme? And the ever-fearful question: what about debugging?
The deviations are all in the run-time, mainly no continuations. Also, I'm not sure if I'll guarantee tail recursion, since I'm so dependent on the language I'm compiling to. Ports and vectors might be different too.
Macros, lists, functions, syntax, etc. will be the same though. I'm basically using the R5RS as a rough guide for a language.
Debugging is actually really exciting to me. I really want to learn how to write a debugger. So that is early on the feature list: a debugger written in Outlet itself so that it can run in any environment it compiles to. I'm thinking there could be a web interface to step through Outlet code. I'm not sure, but we'll see how far I get :)
Macros, lists, functions, syntax, etc. will be the same though. I'm basically using the R5RS as a rough guide for a language.
Debugging is actually really exciting to me. I really want to learn how to write a debugger. So that is early on the feature list: a debugger written in Outlet itself so that it can run in any environment it compiles to. I'm thinking there could be a web interface to step through Outlet code. I'm not sure, but we'll see how far I get :)