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4 points by malisper 3067 days ago | link | parent

That's only ssyntax. a.b is rewritten as (get a b) where get is a generic function. You may be able to use set-funcallable-instance-function to get something closer to what arc supplies. Also there are a lot of edge cases with the ssyntax since you have to be within a w/ssyntax block. There is one included in def, so you can use ssyntax in function definitions, but you can't use it at the toplevel.


2 points by highCs 3066 days ago | link

An idea would be to have an arc macro that compile arc code.

  (arc :l "myprogram.arc")
  (arc :e (f:g 3.14))

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2 points by akkartik 3067 days ago | link

Interesting. I think Wart supported ssyntax at the toplevel.

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2 points by akkartik 3066 days ago | link

Yup:

  $ git clone https://github.com/akkartik/wart
  $ cd wart
  $ git checkout sbcl
  $ ./wart
  wart> car.nil
  nil

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1 point by highCs 3065 days ago | link

Gonna have to take a closer look at wart.

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2 points by akkartik 3065 days ago | link

I wouldn't spend too much time on it. malisper truly has the right idiomatic approach with packages. I was mostly just flailing around with the little bit of Common Lisp I understand.

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