Hi Daniel, On Tue 31 Mar 2009 12:44, Daniel Kraft <d...@domob.eu> writes:
> as already discussed briefly with the Guile guys behind the new VM > thing, I got the idea to implement Emacs Lisp as supported language for > the Guile VM system. This sounds great! I'd love to assist. As the fellow who's hacked most on Guile's VM, I can offer "mentorship" if you like, on the Guile side -- though I am not as knowledgable about Emacs as I'd like to be. I'll direct replies to further Guile-type details to the Guile list, but in summary: > Originally, Guile as the GNU scripting language was designed as a language > based on the Scheme lisp dialect; however, as a prime example for use of a > scripting language (and with a huge existing base of scripts) Emacs Lisp is > another popular lisp based scripting language. With the new capabilities of > Guile, it will be possible to add support of this language to Guile and thus > allow it (and all programs using Guile as scripting engine) to be > programmed not > only in Scheme but also Emacs lisp; thus, it will also be possible to > utilize > all the existing elisp code for creating even more nifty and useful > scripts. YMMV, but I think that elisp is most useful within the context of Emacs itself -- its data types, its libraries, its runtime. So after getting Emacs Lisp's semantics to compile, perhaps as a "if time allows" thing, defining a Guile implementation of emacs/src/lisp.h would allow Guile to slip into Emacs with minimal modification of C sources. Or perhaps it's better to limit this SOC to just the Scheme side of things? Dunno. In any case, I think with "world enough and time", Guile can do whatever it takes to provide a faster, better Elisp implementation -- including adding Elisp-specific ops to its VM, if necessary. > Communication: > > Depends on the requests from my mentor / the community, but I think the > public development mailing lists and private email should be fine; other > ideas > are instant messaging / IRC. I'm often on #guile, with CET as my timezone. Between there and the mailing lists we should be good, avoiding private email. I hope this works out! Andy -- http://wingolog.org/