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Re:Why interpreters matter (at least for high level programm... by groovy2shoes on Sunday May 13, 2012 @07:51PM (#3968801)
Yeah, Guile has first-class macros, but I've never been able to come up with a practical use for them, either. I still find them neat.

Is your vau work available publicly? I find this stuff very interesting.

Re:Why interpreters matter (at least for high level programm... by gliese1337 on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:20PM (#3968853)
Yup. I've got it up on github at https://github.com/gliese1337/schrodinger-lisp, with explanations blogged at http://gliese1337.blogspot.com/2012/04/schrodingers-equation... (first installment; there are later posts with the same tags describing incrementally added features).

The syntactic sugar for macros isn't pushed to the public repository yet; not till I get a good blog post written up about it. But it's basically parallel to the operation of "wrap" in Kernel- where "wrap" creates a lambda by evaluating the arguments to a vau expression, "macro" evaluates the return value of a vau expression.

I'm doing most the research stuff on the Schrodinger repository, and things that I like will end up eventually on https://github.com/gliese1337/vernal-lang ; I've stopped actively updating that repository for now because I'm contemplating re-implementing the "real" Vernal interpreter (as opposed to the "research-only" Schrodinger interpreter) in Go, so that there's only 1 level of interpretation going on instead of 2.