There was a co-located workshop called FOOL, or Foundation of Object-Oriented Languages (http://fool2013.cs.brown.edu/). It was a gathering of mainly static-type theorists. I snuck into it when I saw David Ungar and Gilad Bracha chatting t…

I kind of made it sound like "Pepsi and Coke (No. 5)" was the last one, but that is not necessarily the case^^; I got a simple assignment from Ian. The assignment (specifically speaking, I said "I want it" first, and then he said "you can …

I fetched the "head" tree from the SVN repository of idst and tried to make it run on my Windows machine (again). I said "I tried" but the way I did was just to complain to Ian in person. The issue turned out that some macros (such as _B, …

I thought I was going to write about the "syntax" thing, but I think it is worthwhile to clarify myself on objects and the execution system first. So, objects. After spending a few days on Jolt Coke, I went back and re-read the page at htt…

A few notes from Ian.The implementation of "print". The following version would be adequate in the rounded paren syntax. Also, it takes advantage of existing print: method. (define print (lambda (object) [StdOut print: object]))There is "f…

One of Coke's strength is manipulating syntax trees, like any other lispy languages. In Coke, there are some features that lets you transform a syntax tree into another form. It doesn't have all the features that a sophisticated Lisp macro…

I'm playing with the "Ian's stuff" last two days. I'm learning by doing and the example project I picked is to write Ruby in it. To do this, one will require to write: - The mapping from the Ruby object model to the Coke one. Since the Cok…