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Aside: has anyone heard any recent news about the K5/K6 rewrites of the underlying interpreter? There was a fair amount of chatter about these a couple of year

Aside: has anyone heard any recent news about the K5/K6 rewrites of the underlying interpreter? There was a fair amount of chatter about these a couple of years ago, but all gone rather quiet... (Some context: http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320 http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320)

RodgerTheGreat 9y ago
Currently it looks like k7 is going to be an actual commercial product in the near-ish future. Arthur is still hashing the details out, but the language design is substantially similar to k6. If anyone ideas or strong opinions about how to make k7 better, now would be a pretty good time to email Arthur. For those not already in the loop with respect to k6, the reference card (http://kparc.com/k.txt http://kparc.com/k.txt) provides a good overview. Note that it is neither exhaustive nor completely representative of the current state of the language.