sklogic

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1. 1441.▲
   by sklogic 12y ago

   Yes, it is useful. For example, if you want to bootstrap a language implementation from the smallest possible subset, with a very trivial interpreter, then using Y-combinator as a way to implement recursion is reasonable (after all, perform
2. 1442.▲
   by sklogic 12y ago

   P.S. PFront implementation is available here: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase
3. 1443.▲
   by sklogic 12y ago

   Github is using some weird heuristics for detecting languages, and, apparently, multiple 'fun' tokens bends it towards Clojure in this case. I'm not sure if this way of language detection will ever work with PFront, as it is
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   by sklogic 12y ago

   You can also mix PEG (Packrat) with Pratt in an interesting way. Nemerle does this, as well as https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase And you can do a lot of nice stuff with PEGs, like generating error recovery and
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   Clike: An extensible C-like language compiler in under 3000 lines of code(github.com)

   32 points by sklogic 12y ago|3 comments
6. 1446.▲
   by sklogic 12y ago

   Are you doing some fancy region analysis (e.g., like in Harlan) instead of GC?
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   MBase compiler development framework is released(github.com)

   4 points by sklogic 12y ago|0 comments