On Wednesday, January 06, 2016 06:06:17 AM Ismael Venegas Castelló wrote:
> could we
> switch to arrays instead of keep using svecs once julia defines the array
> type?
Won't work. svecs are used all over the C code, because the C code is the core
from which you bootstrap. Moreover, you don't "throw away" the C code once
more of julia is up and running---it's still used to manipulate ASTs, compute
type intersection and subtyping, perform method dispatch, perform codegen,
etc.
If you tried to "switch" to arrays, you'd have to implement everything twice,
effectively.
--Tim
>
> El martes, 5 de enero de 2016, 9:09:08 (UTC-6), Matt Bauman escribió:
> > On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 3:23:14 AM UTC-5, Ismael Venegas Castelló
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Why force `methods` to work with anything?
> >
> > Because you can call anything:
> >
> > julia> call(x::Char) = x+1
> > call (generic function with 1038 methods)
> >
> > julia> 'c'()
> > 'd'
> >
> > julia> methods('c')
> >
> > 1-element Array{Any,1}:
> > call(x::Char) at none:1
> >
> > There's been a much stronger push for documenting the external interfaces,
> > but there's more and more internal developer documentation these days, too
> > ( http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/julia/). It's getting
> > better.
> >
> > I believe flisp.boot is a generated file.
> >
> > Builtins are simply functions (and types) that are written in C; necessary
> > for bootstrapping. You can find the mapping between their Julia names and
> > the C definitions here:
> > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/baf174f5c252a438006c6f23ed7097fbab
> > 004025/src/builtins.c#L1202-L1284.>
> > Search for their C names to find their definitions. They accept any
> >
> > number of Any arguments within their function definitions, but those that
> > require a certain number of arguments have error checking within the C
> > function.
> >
> > Also note that anonymous functions have the type `Function`, too. The
> > introspection utility you want is `isgeneric`. I imagine lots of this
> > will
> > change with the jb/functions branch, where all functions are generic.
