Re: [fonc] To fork or not to fork? (was: Hacking Maru)

2013-10-23 Thread Loup Vaillant-David
Terrific work! I have just cloned your git repository, I will check it out. But first, I need to crack generalised Earley Parsing. I love OMeta, but the hack it uses to get around PEGs limitations on left recursion is ugly (meaning, not fully general). I basically want PEGs that run on Earley p

Re: [fonc] To fork or not to fork? (was: Hacking Maru)

2013-10-23 Thread shawnmorel
Since we're on the topic of forking... About a year and a half ago, I basically took maru-2.1 apart and rebuilt it from scratch as a learning experiment. Also, in the spirit of fonc and the sciences of the artificial, I wanted to write experiments against the maru system - these of course boil

Re: [fonc] To fork or not to fork? (was: Hacking Maru)

2013-10-21 Thread Ian Piumarta
Loup, By 'fork' I meant to imply creating a publicly-visible repository that pops up in google searches and prevents you finding the place where the progress is being made, unless you happen to spot the tiny icon hidden in the corner that takes you to the repo from which your current page was f

[fonc] To fork or not to fork? (was: Hacking Maru)

2013-10-21 Thread Loup Vaillant-David
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:40:32PM -0700, Ian Piumarta wrote: > > * Is the idea that everyone should be doing/forking his own, > > CipherSaber style, or is there an intent to share and build common > > platform? > > I'd love to build a common platform. Maru is in particular trying > to be malleab