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Re:#F – A Minimalistic Scheme System by moomin on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @02:56AM (#41168433)
Well, that’s a confusing name to give your project.
Re:#F – A Minimalistic Scheme System by gjvc on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @07:13AM (#41169691)
heh, it caught me out...
Re:#F – A Minimalistic Scheme System by mepian on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @09:54AM (#41170893)
I guess it follows the tradition where an ancient Lisp dialect was called NIL (which is how the false value was denoted back then): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language)
Re:#F – A Minimalistic Scheme System by nj5rq on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @04:28PM (#41174962)
The C source code in the GitHub looks... Interesting. At least the "fixpoint" directory.
Re:#F – A Minimalistic Scheme System by mrgoldenbrown on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @04:38PM (#41175067)
That's a confusing name choice, I expected this to be some kind of scheme implementation based on the existing language F#
Re:#F – A Minimalistic Scheme System by wdkrnls on Friday August 09, 2024 @07:46AM (#41200915)
I really like that it tries to be extremely minimal, but was surprised to read it didn't support eval/apply at the lowest level.