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For some time, I've daydreamed about implementing R in Racket ("Arket"?) as a means of shining a flashlight in all the dark corners of my R knowledge. Then I re

For some time, I've daydreamed about implementing R in Racket ("Arket"?) as a means of shining a flashlight in all the dark corners of my R knowledge. Then I realize this would take me a heap of time and it goes back to being a daydream.

shriramkmurthi 12y ago
Look at how we've structured the semantics of JavaScript, Python, etc. (E.g.: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pclpk-s5-semantics/ http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pclpk-..., http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pmmwplck-python-full-monty/ http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pmmwpl..., http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/gsk-essence-javascript/ http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/gsk-es...). This is how you should go about creating a core of R, followed by an elaboration from the full language into the core. Steal an existing parser to get ASTs, then most of your time goes into desguaring.