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							| @ -2,10 +2,9 @@ ell | ||||
| === | ||||
| :compact-option: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 'ell' is a modified subset of Scheme with added syntax sugar, incorporating | ||||
| ideas from Perl, Tcl and Bourne shell.  The goal was to conceive a programming | ||||
| language implementable with as little code as possible while still being | ||||
| reasonably comfortable to use. | ||||
| 'ell' is a middle ground between Scheme and Tcl.  The goal was to conceive | ||||
| a programming language implementable with as little code as possible while | ||||
| still being reasonably comfortable to use. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| This package is an implementation of said language, meant to be self-contained, | ||||
| portable and reusable.  Performance is specifically not an intent. | ||||
| @ -16,10 +15,10 @@ needed for anyone interested. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Syntax | ||||
| ------ | ||||
| Owing to its Scheme heritage, 'ell' is homoiconic, that is a program can be | ||||
| directly expressed using the language's data types.  There are only two of | ||||
| those: the list and the string.  Any numerical conversions are made on an | ||||
| as-needed basis.  Similarly, strings act like atoms/symbols when executed. | ||||
| Owing to its heritage, 'ell' is homoiconic, that is a program can be directly | ||||
| expressed using the language's data types.  There are only two of those: | ||||
| the list and the string.  Any numerical conversions are made on an as-needed | ||||
| basis.  Similarly, strings act like atoms/symbols when executed. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The parser, however, does a bunch of transformations: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| @ -167,7 +166,9 @@ Install development packages for GNU Readline to get a REPL for toying around: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Possible Ways of Complicating | ||||
| ----------------------------- | ||||
|  * `local [_a _b _rest] @*` would elegantly solve the problem of varargs | ||||
|  * `local [_a _b _rest] @*` would elegantly solve the problem of varargs, | ||||
|    that is, unpack a list when names are list, and make the last element a list | ||||
|    when there are more arguments than names | ||||
|  * reference counting: currently all values are always copied as needed, which | ||||
|    is good enough for all imaginable use cases, simpler and less error-prone | ||||
| 
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