Re: Some more elisp aspects: Reader and documentation

2009-08-17 Thread Daniel Kraft
Hi Ludo, 2) Write a seperate elisp reader, possibly in Scheme (but could be C as well if that's important for performance). This helps us keep "both" readers clean and seperate, but all has to be done from ground up and the code is probably slower (when written in Scheme). This sounds like the

Re: Some more elisp aspects: Reader and documentation

2009-08-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Daniel Kraft writes: >>> 2) Write a seperate elisp reader, possibly in Scheme (but could be C >>> as well if that's important for performance). This helps us keep >>> "both" readers clean and seperate, but all has to be done from ground >>> up and the code is probably slower (when written in Sch

Re: Some more elisp aspects: Reader and documentation

2009-08-17 Thread Daniel Kraft
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Sorry for the late reply. no problem, thanks for the reply! I had a lot of other stuff to do anyways, and so didn't really get into the situation of waiting for a reply here ;) 2) Write a seperate elisp reader, possibly in Scheme (but could be C as well if

Re: Some more elisp aspects: Reader and documentation

2009-08-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Daniel, Sorry for the late reply. Daniel Kraft writes: > 2) Write a seperate elisp reader, possibly in Scheme (but could be C > as well if that's important for performance). This helps us keep > "both" readers clean and seperate, but all has to be done from ground > up and the code is proba

Some more elisp aspects: Reader and documentation

2009-08-01 Thread Daniel Kraft
Hi Andy and all, as the main elisp compiler gets more and more complete (well, still a lot details missing as well as probably even most built-ins, but anyways), I think I'll also work on a real elisp reader (currently, Guile's Scheme reader is used) as well as some (internals) documentation