>I just don't like the workflow of compiling everything. If I want to use clojure on the comandline i want to write "clojure-pypy mytool.cljp".
Does this seam resenable? I was thinking about starting this rather soon. For me it would be a research type project (at least at first). Would anybody care to work with me on this? > I would love to help out on this project. A few things to think about: 1) PyPy takes a very, very loose view of "bytecode". That is, there is no reason to execute "bytecode" inside your interpreter. Instead...in LISP data=code. So why not just allow any arbitrary object to be eval()? Basically this means you can write a pure LISP interpreter...and PyPy will write the JIT. 2) It should be possible to implement only a very, very small subset of Clojure in RPython, then write the rest in Clojure. ClojureScript does a very, very good job at this. The idea is that you define deftype, defprotocol, if, def, and a few other functions, then implement 100% of the rest of the code via these functions. Using arrays, it's possible to implement PersistentHashMaps, Vectors, etc. And then the nice thing is, you can completely modify the underlying interpreter at will, and not have to modify any code. I guess what I'm suggesting, is that you abstract Clojure from the VM that it operates on. As long as the compiler knows how to deftype, defprotocol, etc., it can run your Clojure subset. I guess the above two points are mostly to keep you from having to re-implement code in the future, or have to spend a ton of time on useless code. I've built a bytecode system in PyPy and it's no fun. As it is, you'll have fun with just basic things like figuring out how to add a float and a int. Timothy -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
