Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
by smabie on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:20PM
(#24446363)
It would be cool if it was implemented as a reader macro instead of just passing a string to a function.
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Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
by phoe-krk on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:23PM
(#24446957)
Do it yourself! (Implementation loosely based on phantomics' comment below.)
(defun april-reader (stream char)
(declare (ignore char))
`(april ,(read stream t nil t)))
(set-macro-character #\⎕ #'april-reader)
Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
by Avshalom on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:43PM
(#24447144)
You're probably gonna want something more complicated than that. Glancing at the github page it looks like at least the following need to be dealt with:
(april "apl code") ; and april-f
(april (with (stuff)) "apl code") ; and april-f
(april-c "apl code" (input))
(april-c (with (stuff)) "apl code" (input))
Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
by phoe-krk on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:49PM
(#24447198)
Yes, the above is a trivial implementation; handling multi-form input would need to be much more complex. Thankfully, for simple one-liners, you'll likely want either April literals (implemented above) or April anonymous functions, both of which won't take additional arguments; you should be able to implement both as simple reader macros.
Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
by phantomics on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:30PM
(#24446448)
Wouldn't be too hard to do, someone in the video suggested a #⎕ reader macro followed by APL. Like take '#⎕string' then expand that to '(april "string")'.
But April has many ways of passing options and external data for the compiled code to operate upon, and implementing a reader macro system that would support all those parameters would be complicated and require developers to learn a bunch of new syntax in order to use April with reader macros.
Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]
by phantomics on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:12PM
(#24448303)
Another option is to load APL source from a file.
(april-load #P"/path/to/code.apl")
Then you can have files of pure APL code with no Lisp hanging around.