On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 8:41:54 PM UTC-4, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > I would first decide whether and how I want functions and variables > provided by modules in this language, to be usable from modules in other > `#lang`s. That narrows down the options of how to do it. Very good point. To be honest, usability from other `#lang`s wasn't a priority for me—at least not in the first iteration of this little project of mine.
> If you're writing an Emacs Lisp implementation, I'm not writing an Emacs Lisp implementation; I'm writing an implementation of KLambda, a tiny (the "K" stands for "Kernel") and rather idiosyncratic Lisp. > I would look at what Guile has done. And also consider whether the > dynamically-scoped and buffer-local variables affect how you solve > your Lisp-2 namespaces problem. The Guile-ELisp connection is an interesting one which I had already been interested in eventually learning more about, but I had expected there to be a way to use Racket's existing features to implement KLambda. Thanks Neil! -Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
