addSlot complicating module handling

Steven Shaw steshaw at gmail.com
Tue May 10 21:06:01 PDT 2005


On 5/11/05, Brian Rice <water at tunes.org> wrote:
> 
> On May 10, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Pupeno wrote:
> > Je Lundo Majo 9 2005 23:49, Steven Shaw skribis:
> >
> >> Is Pidgin very similar to Slang?
> >>
> > I don't know Slang, but I've wrote some Pidgin and it's just very
> > similar to
> > Slate.
> 
> It has some of the same abstraction level, only handling the types of
> control-flow constructs in Slate which map relatively directly to C
> syntax, but unlike Slang, doesn't require a lot of inline strings and
> awkward message-sends which make Slang a little clunky to deal with.
> Also, Slate's type declarations are useful in the Pidgin dialect.
> 
> There are some notes in the Mobius manual here: http://
> slate.tunes.org/doc/mobius/#SECTION00060000000000000000<http://slate.tunes.org/doc/mobius/#SECTION00060000000000000000>
> 
> Pidgin sources for the VM are stored in src/mobius/vm/ and sub-
> directories, although bootstrap.slate and build.slate and so forth
> are the engine (src/mobius/c/ is the translator itself) for
> bootstrapping and so are in full Slate.


Thanks Brian. I'll check that out.

I'm not that familiar with Darcs. Is this the following the right code?

http://slate.tunes.org/repos/main/src/mobius/vm/interp/bytecode.slate

Cheers,
Steve.
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