Re: You missed my later work

2017-04-27 Thread Matt Wette
> On Apr 27, 2017, at 5:55 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > [cc: Matt, author of Nyacc] > >> Well now you could have told them we already had the forth >> https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/stage2/forth.s >> but none of the people in the forth community bothered to build upon it >

Re: You missed my later work

2017-04-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
[cc: Matt, author of Nyacc] > Well now you could have told them we already had the forth > https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/stage2/forth.s > but none of the people in the forth community bothered to build upon it You created a fully bootstrappable LISP and FORTH, wow! That would ma

Mes 0.5 released

2017-04-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.5, representing 249 commits over 4 months. Mes is now self-hosting, or rather it features a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter and C compiler: mes.c and mescc; a Nyacc-based C compiler backend that also works separately with Guile. * About M

Re: ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea?

2017-04-27 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> I've noticed that it's common in Guile modules to use "foo?" for >> variable names involving booleans. It's tempting, > >> But is it a good idea? > > It's an idea that I like and use. There are also the traditional: (let ((name$ "He

Re: ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea?

2017-04-27 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-04-27 12:39 GMT+02:00 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > > > I've noticed that it's common in Guile modules to use "foo?" for > > variable names involving booleans. It's tempting, > > > But is it a good idea? > > It's an idea that I like and use. Not sure that says any

Re: ?-suffix for booleans... good-idea? or bad-idea?

2017-04-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > I've noticed that it's common in Guile modules to use "foo?" for > variable names involving booleans. It's tempting, > But is it a good idea? It's an idea that I like and use. Not sure that says anything about good or bad. I would like to help you paint thou