Oops, I just reread your post... Support Generators LIKE python :-D Ok, now I'm feeling like an idiot. By generator, I figured you meant output to whatever system...
Oh well, I'll leave Nicolas to answer this one and keep quiet. Lee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 March 2006 12:47 To: [email protected] Subject: [Neko] Fwd: Some questions about generators,unicode and benchmarking Hi to you all, Neko looks like a very promissing project for dynamic languages. I'm impressed with the speed at which it is being developped, the size of the vm and the (unoptimized) speed of execution. I just stumbled upon www.nekovm.org and a couple of questions came up. * Does neko (or nekoml) support generators like python (http://www.python.org), Boo (http://boo.codehaus.org) or .NET 2.0? I looked through the neko documentation and found it fairly complete in functionality but I missed the generator functionality, which I find a very usefull addition to programming. It is a construction that makes lazy loading very easy and it mostly used in iterator pattern ("for a in b"). A generator type would be nice. For example a generator in Boo: def myGenerator(x): x += 1 yield x //return x, but next call will continue here x += 10 yield x for a in MyGenerator(3): print a would print "4" and "14" In Neko it could be something like. var gen = generator(x){ x += 1; yield x; x += 10; yield x; } while(gen.next()){ //or $next(gen) a = gen.value; //or $value(gen) $print(a); } * Unicode: most current programming languages use a unicode string representation. I'm not sure about this, but Neko seems to have a single byte string representation, but with support for UTF8. Is it wise to stick to the (old fashioned?) single byte representation? * Benchmarking. Since it is/will be an issue for the adoptation of neko, it is nice to implement some of the benchmarks of the computer language shootout (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/) and apply for an entry in this shootout. Cheers, Edwin -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org) -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
