On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>> indeed. In turn, Helvetia would actually simplify the implementation. E.g.
>> Quasi-Quoting
>> is very nice when building AST snippits to be inserted.
>
> The situation also has its advantages :-)
>
> I recently rewrote the Quasiquoting bootstrap code in a new and much
> simpler way. Instead of directly plugging it into the NewCompiler and
> generating byte code, I reimplemented the quoting mechanism as a pure
> parse tree transformation on the AST. Like this it is the whole thing
> is independent of the actual compiler being used. The quote, unquote
> and splice nodes can be transformed to traditional nodes as a
> preprocessing step to any backend.
>
Very good! This means it fits nicely into the pure-AST model fo Reflectivity...
(where bytecode is just an execution artefact, like the machine code in a JIT,
but never
used as the model of Reflection or presented to the programer in any form)
>
>> With Johan, I plan to use Helvetia together with Reflectivity for some
>> research project.
>
> Cool. Keep me in the loop on that.
>
Will do.
Marcus
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INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
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