Re: special forms, take two (was Re: A lua version of "amb")
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- Subject: Re: special forms, take two (was Re: A lua version of "amb")
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: 2012年2月19日 18:55:18 +0200
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
> I suspect there's a translation to coroutines and pcall/error, but it does look like another example of pain by lack of macros and/or concise lambdas.
Oh yes, I we had at least one war about the |x| x+1 syntax (Metalua
and GSL). lhf suggested a more token-filter friendly \x(x+1) which has
the advantage of making the expression unambiguous; that's in
LuaMacro.
On Reddit today there is a discussion about a language called Julia
which looks very much like Lua and has LuaJIT-like speed ambitions and
metalua-like syntax quoting and compile-time metaprogramming. (With
optional type annotations, which seems to be a popular meme in the
programming language design game at the moment.)
So Lua's inner Scheme is still struggling to come out ;)
steve d.