Re: [Factor-talk] staapl for the PIC24

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Schouten
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:12:58PM -0600, Hugh Aguilar wrote: I had never heard of staapl before but am now reading up on it at your website; it looks pretty cool from what I've read so far. Do you have any plans for upgrading from the PIC18 to the PIC24? Yes, in the sense that I want to

Re: [Factor-talk] Rewriting

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Schouten
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:20:04AM -0500, Slava Pestov wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Tom Schoutent...@zwizwa.be wrote: Bout time I have a look at it then..  Is the compiler tied in closely to the rest of the system?  I'm wondering if I it would be difficult to embed it in PLT

Re: [Factor-talk] Rewriting

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Schouten
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:54:55AM -0500, Slava Pestov wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Tom Schoutent...@zwizwa.be wrote: But, you're making me curious. Is it possible to macro-translate Scheme into Factor? I assume the answer is yes as I think Factor has compatible lexical

Re: [Factor-talk] Rewriting

2009-08-29 Thread Tom Schouten
I'm also not sure if they are really 100% equivalent, since I'm throwing in some extra specification of the order of evaluation.  This makes it possible to play tricks like using objects that only exist at compile time without requiring any special notation for it: the eager algorithm