commit

implementations/c/configure.ac

@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 LT_INIT
 
 AC_PROG_CC
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([CHECK], [check >= 0.9.6])
 
+AS_IF([test "x$CC" = "xgcc"], [
+	    PKG_CHECK_MODULES([CHECK], [check >= 0.9.6])
+])
+			
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile tests/Makefile])
 
 AC_OUTPUT

implementations/c/tests/check_ptlisp.log

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Running suite(s): Memory
- Array
- Table
- Symbol
- String
- Cons
- Environment
- Evaluator
- Lisp
- Reader
- Printer
-100%: Checks: 85, Failures: 0, Errors: 0
-PASS check_ptlisp (exit status: 0)

implementations/c/tests/check_ptlisp.trs

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-:test-result: PASS
-:global-test-result: PASS
-:recheck: no
-:copy-in-global-log: no

implementations/c/tests/test-suite.log

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-======================================
-   ptlisp 0.1: tests/test-suite.log
-======================================
-
-# TOTAL: 1
-# PASS:  1
-# SKIP:  0
-# XFAIL: 0
-# FAIL:  0
-# XPASS: 0
-# ERROR: 0
-
-.. contents:: :depth: 2
-

implementations/wasm/lisp.js

@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ async function main() {
  (loop (set count (+ count 1))
       (print count)
       (if (>= count 5) break nil)))
+
+(def d 5)
+(defn addd (a b) (+ a b d))
+(addd 1 2)
+(let ((d 10)) (addd 1 2))
 \0`);
     // const str = new TextEncoder().encode('+');
     const index = instance.exports.alloc(str.length);

spec.org

@@ -0,0 +1,375 @@
+* Types:
+** integer
+** double
+** rational
+** character
+** string
+** cons
+** fn
+** macro
+** array
+** hash-table
+** stream
+* Symbols:
+** nil
+** t
+** NaN
+** undefined
+* Functions:
+** number?
+*** Is the argument a number?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is an integer, double or rational.
+** integer?
+*** Is the argument an integer?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is an integer.
+** double?
+*** Is the argument a double floating-point number?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a double.
+** rational?
+*** Is the argument a rational number?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a rational.
+** NaN?
+*** Is the argument not a number?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a double and the value is NaN.
+** undefined?
+*** Is the argument undefined?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's pointer is the same as undefined.
+** char?
+*** Is the argument a character?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a character.
+** string?
+*** Is the argument a string?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a string.
+** cons?
+*** Is the argument a cons pair?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a cons.
+** fn?
+*** Is the argument a function?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a function.
+** macro?
+*** Is the argument a macro?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a macro.
+** array?
+*** Is the argument an array?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is an array.
+** hash-table?
+*** Is the argument an hash-table?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is an hash-table.
+** stream?
+*** Is the argument a stream?
+    Takes anything and return T if it's type is a stream.
+** double
+*** Convert a number to double floating-point?
+    Takes a number and convert it into a double floating-point number.
+** ceil
+*** Round a number upward?
+    Takes a number and round it upward.
+** floor
+*** Round a number downward?
+    Takes a number and round it downward.
+** round
+*** Round a number
+    Takes a number and round it to mathematically closest and if it's in between two
+    integers i.e 0.5, round to closest even (divisible by two) integer
+** +
+*** Add n numbers
+    Takes integers, rationals and doubles.
+    If a number is double return a double.
+    Else if a number is rational and the result's denominator is not 1 
+         then return a rational.
+    Else return an integer.
+**** 0 number => 0
+**** 1 number => n
+**** > 1 numbers => n0 + n1 + n2 ...
+** -
+*** Substract n numbers
+    Takes integers, rationals and doubles.
+    If a number is double return a double.
+    Else if a number is rational and the result's denominator is not 1 
+         then return a rational.
+    Else return an integer.
+**** 0 number => Error
+**** 1 number => 0 - n
+**** > 1 numbers => n0 - n1 - n2 ...
+** *
+*** Multiply n numbers
+    Takes integers, rationals and doubles.
+    If a number is double return a double.
+    Else if a number is rational and the result's denominator is not 1 
+         then return a rational.
+    Else return an integer.
+**** 0 number => 1
+**** 1 number => n
+**** > 1 numbers => n0 * n1 * n2 ...
+** /
+*** Divide n numbers
+    Takes integers, rationals and doubles.
+    If a number is double return a double.
+    Else if a number is rational and the result's denominator is not 1 
+         then return a rational.
+    Else return an integer.
+**** 0 number => Error
+**** 1 number => 1 / n
+**** > 1 numbers => n0 / n1 / n2 ...
+** **
+*** Power 2 numbers
+    Takes integers, rationals and doubles.
+    If a number is double return a double.
+    Else if a number is rational and the result's denominator is not 1 
+         then return a rational.
+    Else return an integer.
+**** < 2 number => Error
+**** 2 numbers => n0 ** n1
+**** > 2 numbers => Error
+** &
+*** Bitwise AND numbers
+    Takes integers and return an integer.
+**** 0 number => -1
+**** 1 number => n
+**** > 1 numbers => n0 & n1 & n2 ...
+** |
+*** Bitwise OR numbers
+    Takes integers and return an integer.
+**** 0 number => 0
+**** 1 number => n
+**** > 1 numbers => n0 | n1 | n2 ...
+** ^
+*** Bitwise XOR numbers
+    Takes integers and return an integer.
+**** 0 number => 0
+**** 1 number => n
+**** > 1 numbers => n0 ^ n1 ^ n2 ...
+** ~
+*** Bitwise NOT numbers
+    Takes an integer and return an integer.
+**** 0 number => ERROR
+**** 1 number => ~n
+**** > 1 numbers => ERROR
+** &&
+*** Branching AND expresions.
+    Takes anything, evaluate left to right and return the first item that eval to NIL
+    or the result of the last eval.
+**** 0 item => T
+**** > 0 items => first item to eval to nil or the last item.
+** ||
+*** Branching OR expresions.
+    Takes anything, evaluate left to right and return the first item that eval to not NIL
+    or the result of the last eval.
+**** 0 item => T
+**** > 0 items => first item to eval to not nil or the last item eval.
+** !
+*** Return T if NIL else NIL.
+    Takes anything.
+** if
+*** Branching tree.
+    Evaluate the condition and then evaluate the true or false branch based on the result.
+    I.e: if the condition evaluate to nil, evaluate the false branch.
+** =
+*** Compare 2 arguments for equality. 
+    Takes 2 argument and compare them for equality.
+    If the types are different, return false, unless they're different number types.
+    Compare numbers by value:
+    Integer value to integer value if both integer.
+    If integer and rational than always return false. 
+    If one is a double, the other argument is to be converted to double 
+    and then compared.
+    Rationals are to be compared numerator to numerator and denominator to denominator.
+** <
+*** Is n0 less than n1?
+    Compare the first number with the second and return true
+    if it's less than.
+** >
+*** Is n0 greater than n1?
+    Compare the first number with the second and return true
+    if it's greater than.
+** <=
+*** Is n0 less than or equal to n1?
+    Compare the first number with the second and return true
+    if it's less than or equal.
+** >=
+*** Is n0 greater than or equal to n1?
+    Compare the first number with the second and return true
+    if it's greater than or equal.
+** !=
+*** Compare 2 arguments for inequality. 
+    Takes 2 argument and compare them for inequality.
+    Compare 
+** list
+*** Return a list from the arguments
+    Return nil if no arguments.
+** cons
+*** Return a cons pair from 2 arguments
+    Return an error if more than 2 arguments.
+** car
+*** Return first element of a pair/list
+    Return an error if not a cons.
+** cdr
+*** Return second element of a pair / rest of the list
+    Return an error if not a cons.
+** peek-char
+*** Return first char in the specified stream.
+    Takes nothing, NIL, T or a stream, anything else return an error.
+    If nothing, NIL or T use the standard-input stream as the stream.
+    Return the first character without increasing the reading pointer
+    in the stream.
+** read-char
+*** Return first char in the specified stream.
+    Takes nothing, NIL, T or a stream, anything else return an error.
+    If nothing, NIL or T use the standard-input stream as the stream.
+    Return the first character while increasing the reading pointer
+    in the stream.
+** set-reader-macro
+*** Bind a function on a character that will be triggered during reading.
+    Takes a character and a function. The later takes in a character
+    and a stream and return a value.
+** read
+*** Return an expression read in the specified stream.
+    Takes nothing, NIL, T or a stream, anything else return an error.
+    If nothing, NIL or T use the standard-input stream as the stream.
+    Return the first character while increasing the reading pointer
+    in the stream.
+** eval
+*** Return the result of the evaluation of an expression.
+    Takes 1 argument of anything and evaluate it and return the result.
+** quote
+*** Return the argument received as is. 
+    Therefore preventing any evaluation of it.
+** def
+*** Bound a value to a symbol in the global environment.
+    Takes a symbol and anything else. More than 2 arguments result in an error.
+** set
+*** Set the value of the symbol bound in the environment.
+    It goes from the local environmnet outward trying to find a binding on
+    the symbol and if it doesn't then it bind it in the global env.
+** macro
+*** Create a macro function from a list of arguments and the rest is the body.
+** fn
+*** Create a function from a list of arguments and the rest is the body.
+** string
+*** Create a string from different value.
+    If it's a string return it.
+    If it's a symbol, create string from it's text value.
+    If it's a character, create string from it.
+    If it's a number, create the string representation of it.
+    If it's a list or array, concactenate it's content string representation.
+    i.e (string '(\h \e \l \l \o)) => "hello"
+    Return an error on anything else. I.e hash-table, function...
+** array
+*** Create an array from the arguments.
+    Takes anything or nothing and create an array with the arguments in it.
+    (array 1 2 3 4) => [1 2 3 4]
+** hash-table
+*** Create an hash-table from the arguments.
+    Takes anything or nothing and create an hash-table with the arguments
+    splitted in pairs. The first element of a pair is the key and the second is
+    the value. Return an error if odd number of arguments. 
+** push
+*** Push an element at the end of a collection.
+    If the collection is a string, convert the element to string and append it.
+    If the collection is a list, append the element to the end of it.
+    If the collection is an array, append the element to the end of it.
+    Else return an error.
+** pop
+*** Pop an element from the end of a collection.
+    If the collection is a string, reduce it's length by 1 and return the last character.
+       Handle UTF-8 character so that if the last byte of the string is part of an 
+       UTF-8 character, reduce the length until you get the header, and return the UTF-8
+       character.
+    If the collection is a list, set the cdr of second to last pair to nil and 
+       return the last element.
+    If the collection is an array, reduce the length by 1 and return the last element.
+    Else return an error.
+** insert
+*** Insert an element at a position in a collection.
+    Let you insert into list, string, array and hash-table.
+    Takes a number position for a list, string, array 
+    or anything as key for an hash-table.
+    Takes anything as value to be inserted.
+** get
+*** Get an element at a position in a collection.
+    Let you retrieve an element into list, string, array and hash-table.
+    Takes a number position for a list, string, array 
+    or anything as key for an hash-table.
+    Return undefined if nothing is found.
+** write
+*** Write to a stream in a format that could be read back.
+    Write in a way that the reader could make sense of the result.
+    Useful for writing to a file to be read from later on, or just debugging.
+** print
+*** Print to a stream in a human friendly way.
+    Useful for user messages.
+** do
+*** Block of expresions to be evaluated.
+    The last evaluation is to be returned.
+** length
+*** Return the length of string, list or array.
+    If anything but a string, list or array return an error.
+    Accepts only 1 argument.
+** let
+*** Create a local environment 
+    Takes a list of key value list and a body.
+    Creates a new environment table and insert for the key, the evaluated value.
+    Reuse this new environment table for the next key, value pair. 
+    Making it that the key, value of the previous pair can be used to eval the
+    current one.
+    Then eval the body, one expression after the other using the new local environment
+    and return the result of the last expression.
+** quasiquote
+*** Acts like quote but with a twist.
+    Don't eval the expression but navigate it and eval only the
+    expression with 'unquote' or 'unquote-splicing' as their car.
+** unquote
+*** Evaluate the expression in place
+** unquote-splicing
+*** Evaluate the expression and inline the list result.
+    Inline in a list by changing the cdr of the previous pair to 
+    result and the cdr of the last cons in result to be the cdr
+    of the previous cons before the change.
+    i.e (quasiquote 1 2 3 (unquote-splicing (list 4 5)) 6) =>
+    (cons 1 (cons 2 (cons 3 (cons 4 (cons 5 (cons 6 nil))))))
+* Reader macros:
+** \(
+   Create a list by reading elements after elements until a \) is encountered.
+** \)
+   Return a error because there shouldn't be a closing bracket without a begining.
+** \'
+   Quote the following read. I.e 'hello => (quote hello)
+** \[
+   Create an array by reading elements after elements until a \] is encountered.
+** \]
+   Return a error because there shouldn't be a closing bracket without a begining.
+** \{
+   Create an hash-table by reading elements after elements until a \} is encountered.
+** \}
+   Return a error because there shouldn't be a closing bracket without a begining.
+** \`
+   Quasiquote the following read. I.e `hello => (quasiquote hello).
+   But also create the \, reader-macro and remove it after the following read.
+** \,
+   Is created and removed by \`.
+   Unquote or unquote-splicing the following read. 
+   I.e ,hello => (unquote hello)
+       ,@'(1 2) => (unquote-splicing '(1 2))
+* Requirements:
+** Garbage collection
+   The idea of the garbage collector is to iterate through the blocks in
+   memory and marking them as free. Then navigate the global environment
+   to mark everything in it as used (not free). And finally reiterate through
+   the blocks again to then actually free them.
+   It's probably a naive implementation, but it's better than nothing.
+   It will run when something is to be allocated and according to a certain interval.
+   Maintain a counter that decrease by an amount relative to the percent of memory used.
+   If the counter goes below zero, run the garbage collector and reset the counter.
+** Tail call optimisation
+   This optimisation will be done in the evaluator. The goal is to detect when a
+   function is calling it self in tail position. And to achieve this, on function
+   evaluation on the last item of the body navigate through those constructs if
+   existant: LET, IF, AND, OR and DO. And when we navigate through those construct
+   we're looking for the tail call of them. I.e LET, AND, OR and DO is the last expression,
+   IF is the true or false path. And when after that navigation we end up on call to
+   the function currently being evaluated then we can optimise. The optimisation will
+   consist in updating the environment with the new argument values to be passed
+   to the function and instead of calling eval on it, just execute a jump to the
+   start of the current function evaluation. In the eye of the user nothing will happen,
+   but it will prevent that the stack based host pulls out a stack overflow. 
+   There might be a boost in performance, but it's probably minimal.