vm status update

2009-01-11 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey hackers, I just finished up a lot of typing at the manual, and I hope I'm done with that. The net result is that the VM is documented quite thoroughly, and the compiler as well. I'll send those documents to the list in separate mails for inline comments. Otherwise, in the course of

vm.texi: A virtual machine for guile

2009-01-11 Thread Andy Wingo
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=blob;f=doc/ref/vm.texi;hb=refs/heads/vm @c -*-texinfo-*- @c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual. @c Copyright (C) 2008,2009 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions. @node A Virtual Machine

compiler.texi: Compiling to the virtual machine

2009-01-11 Thread Andy Wingo
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=blob;f=doc/ref/compiler.texi;hb=refs/heads/vm @c -*-texinfo-*- @c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual. @c Copyright (C) 2008 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions. @node Compiling to the

someone please implement a lua language

2009-01-11 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello. Lua gets a fair amount of press, and is fine in its way. People like it for the same reason that people liked Tcl: Lua is simple, embeddable, and has the mainstream, Algol-like syntax. Also, it has a reasonably fast implementation. That's cool! It would be interesting to enhance Lua with