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Sat Mar 12 15:47:24 EST 2011
The new `forth-begin'
Forth code is a straight line, and it generates Scheme expressions
that look like:
(variables a b c)
(words-flat
(foo 123)
(bar foo 1 +))
(macros-flat
(baz foo bar + <hole> ))
Essentially, a module s-expression is built one atom at a time. The
default behaviour is to simply append at the end of the last
expression, i.e. in the above it would be at <hole>.
Problems: there is no "macros-flat" form.
Once there is, it should be quite straightforward to use this
approach. The expression could be kept in inverted representation as
long as recursive expansion is not necessary, i.e. a scheme form that
introduces names needs to be properly inserted before the forth
parsing goes on.
The basic misunderstanding in the previous approach is that it is
possible to take a whole file and build a single huge s-expression,
which will then be expanded at once. Because of introduction of names
this isn't possible without recursive expansion. Let's build that in
from the start.
I forgot, the prefix parser thing is actually quite deep.. The call
to `syntax-local-value` is in rpn/parse.ss
So it doesn't look all that bad over there.. It's the middle part
that's rotten.
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