EdiX

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   by EdiX 16y ago

   Indeed, R "the language" has been the main barrier to my adoption of R.
2. 632.▲
   by EdiX 16y ago

   I think that ad was ironically topical
3. 633.▲
   by EdiX 16y ago

   > Do you think programming languages _must_ be free yes
4. 634.▲
   by EdiX 16y ago

   I handled them by generating the assembly code to implement them and setting up the symbol tables as required, I implemented ' as abecedarius said and then quote was a special form that compiled into something that "returned" the requested
5. 635.▲
   by EdiX 16y ago

   I think I did something like that, maybe defmacro was a special form, I don't remember.
6. 636.▲
   by EdiX 16y ago

   I don't know what's the proper way of implementing macros but I can tell you how I did it in my toy lisp implementation: I compiled defmacro as a normal function but I also added it to a macro table, then in my compile-form function I would