Neat! Mark, you may not believe this, but a few months ago I started writing a stack-based language in Chicken, and the first name I chose for it was 'Quacktor'. Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ...
Also, John Cowan has worked on a Joy egg, if I'm not mistaken; you might find that interesting. What I was trying to work out, personally, was a nice way of transforming a postfix, fixed-arity language into decent lexically-scoped expressions, e.g.: 20 dup print + 30 * might translate into (lambda (b) (let ((a 20)) (print a) (* 30 (+ 10 b)))) ...so that I did not have to maintain an explicit stack, and could get Chicken to compile it to something efficient. It worked out pretty well, IIRC, though my examples were pretty short. I also had a nice SCHEME: form, so you could do stuff like REQUIRE: http-client SCHEME: http-get ( url -- body ) (http:GET url) ; : main "http://callcc.org/"; dup print http-get print ; If you're interested, I'll dig up my notes. Graham _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
