Gaby,
If you plan to go ahead with the proposed documentation of
"new boot" (aka. SHOE) I would be delighted to help. Perhaps
you have said before, but could you please explain how to
call SHOE from the command line?
What I would like to do is to provide a environment in the
Axiom Wiki, e.g.
\begin{shoe}
....
\end{shoe}
where we can compile examples of SHOE code. There is already
such an environment for boot
\begin{boot}
....
\end{boot}
See
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/BootProgramming
I am very interested in your comment about the relationship
between SHOE and Haskell.
Regards,
Bill Page.
On November 18, 2006 4:03 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Tim Daly writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | first, bill burge loved puns and i remember him explaining to
> | me that the latest version of boot was much better and more
> | comfortable,
>
> Indeed, the "new boot" is much more comfortable than "old boot",
> in many respects. It has a preliminary support for (dynamic)
> type-checking, algebra datatype and pattern matching.
>
> I don't think there is much code in Axiom that takes advantage of
> the features of "new boot".
>
> I believe I understand enough of it to start documenting it
> properly. Very interestingly, it has much ressemblance with core
> Haskell.
>
> However, the "new boot" still needs some tuning, but I prefer it
> over the "old boot".
>
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