2014-02-13 1:05 GMT+08:00 Herwig Hochleitner :
> 2014-02-12 5:36 GMT+01:00 Di Xu :
>
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>> all lisp dialect provide `read` function, so if you want to build an
>> evaluator, you could just use this function and don't need to do lexical
>> and syntax analysis.
>>
>
> Maybe your understanding of th
2014-02-12 5:36 GMT+01:00 Di Xu :
>
> all lisp dialect provide `read` function, so if you want to build an
> evaluator, you could just use this function and don't need to do lexical
> and syntax analysis.
>
Maybe your understanding of these terms is different from mine, in my view:
A lisp evalua
2014-02-12 5:18 GMT+01:00 t x :
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> If no such evaluator exists, where is the complexity of a
> clojure-in-clojure evaluator that I failed to mention above?
>
Clojure is a compiled language. This means that even if you leave out any
platform issues like bytecode generation, there is still an an
Hi,
lisp in lisp evaluator is the simplest evaluator you can build, because
lisp uses list to represent its program, and all lisp dialect provide
`read` function, so if you want to build an evaluator, you could just use
this function and don't need to do lexical and syntax analysis. This is the
po
Hi,
With apologies for a soft question:
* in SICP, the meta circular evaluator of scheme in scheme (chapter
4) is about a page
* in Ansi Common Lisp, there's a lisp in lisp in about half a page
* if we took Clojure, and ripped out all the JVM support (i.e.
gen-class, proxy, (.javaFunc ..
