Self in Javascript progress

[Adam]

Awesome!

Do you have any interest in integrating this with Avocado? (http://avocadojs.com - it's a Self-like environment I've been building for JavaScript.)

I've been sticking with standard JavaScript syntax so far, but I think it'd be really cool (and maybe make me feel a bit less homesick ;) if I could write real Self code inside Self-like outliners running on top of my web browser's Self-inspired JavaScript VM.


Adam


--- In self-interest at yahoogroups.com, David Goehrig <dave at ...> wrote:
>
> As some of you may know, I've been working on implementing Self in
> Javascript (in addition to some build system improvements), and I'd like to
> let the list know about the progress.  Today I put together a little demo of
> what is currently working and a bit of a post on what is not:
> 
> http://blog.dloh.org/Self-in-Javascript-Video
> 
> The video is 720p so don't bother trying to watch it on your iPhone :)
> 
> It is not a fully functional system yet, it is about 40% of the way there,
> and the compiler will require a rewrite before it is ready for actual use.
>  But the bones are there and for certain simple statements which invoke
> built-in functions you can make little things happen.  The way this thing
> works currently is it parses a string into a set of tokens, and then
> translates them into a rather LISPish variant of standard JavaScript.  If
> you look here:
> 
> https://github.com/cthulhuology/Self.js
> 
> you will see that I'm seriously abusing some little used features of the
> JavaScript language to make it do some rather interesting backflips. In
> effect, the entire program consists of lists of strings passed to a self
> evaluating function object.  This makes it possible to generate a rather
> simple transformation engine which rewrites the self code into a highly
> regular form of Javascript that is devoid of the syntatic complexity of its
> language family.
> 
> The current code base is ~206 lines of JavaScript, and once you work through
> how it works in your head, it is surprisingly legible.
> 
> If anyone would like to comment, contribute, or recommend some better parser
> techniques for the full self syntax, I'd appreciate the guidance.  Mostly I
> am working through a set of test cases I extracted by looking at my own Self
> objects and bits of the system.  I'm not too concerned about being 100%
> compliant at the moment, but simply want to trend towards completeness.
> 
> Dave Goehrig
> 
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