[chuck-users] before we extend ChucK... [was: Guile C++ wrap]

[Robert Poor]

These are all great ideas, but before we dazzle Ge and others with our
brilliant extensions to ChucK, we might focus on getting one or two missing
features implemented.  :) :)

To name just one: the lack of super() results in contorted code.  *Much*
further down on my list are things like closures, duck typing and
introspection.

I'm just sayin'...

- Rob

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:53, Hans Aberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:

>
> On 22 Mar 2010, at 15:07, Kassen wrote:
>
>  One of the main things that I like about Scheme is the REPL.
>>
>> It struck me that the original plan for chuck --shell isn't completely
>> unlike a REPL in how interaction might work for performance or rapid
>> prototyping. We have some framework for that, in that our parser, compiler
>> and VM all live in the same memory space so if we would want to update some
>> function foo() the system should be able to find what bytecode was generated
>> from the original foo() and replace that with the new one.
>>
>> Sadly that idea hasn't received much attention in recent days, but in the
>> Bad Old Days it was treated as rather central to ChucK.
>>
>> Personally I'm more interested in the method of interaction than in the
>> exact language used for it; I'd rather look into that stuff than into a more
>> functional (in the CS sense of the word) syntax as such.
>>
>
> The way Guile works, being a library, is that there are functions for
> interpreting code. So I implemented those functions into some class objects,
> so that one can write:
>  function1<integer, integer> inc("(lambda (x) (+ x 1))");
> instead of the
>  symbol<integer> x("x");
>  function1<integer, integer> inc = x >>= x + 1;
>
> Now a read-evaluation-print loop just has a line editor which reads input
> lines and passes it to some such function, and the prints back the resulting
> string. - There is a function display() by which any object can be made
> human readable, though not in a way that it can be converted back to Scheme
> code.
>
> So perhaps ChucK might be made into some library, though it is great of not
> having to fiddle around with C/C++ programming. But having the option might
> be useful.
>
>
>  Hans
>
>
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