Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
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Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#2> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value)
How does it implement and, or, or if?
Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#3The blog entry titled "Less variables, more flows example vs Python" is strange. ( https://ryelang.blogspot.com/2021/11/less-variables-more-flo... )
The Python version uses intermediate variables so the author of the code is to blame for verbosity, not the language.
Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#4> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value) How does it implement and , or , or if ?
Presumably as functions, the same way as excel?
and(x, y) -> bool
or(x, y) -> bool
if(cond, funcTrue, funcFalse) -> void
Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#5> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value) How does it implement and , or , or if ?
This is possible with fexprs or equivalent constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr
It looks like that's how Rye does it as well, blocks can be conditionally evaluated: https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/if_either/
"In REBOL, contrary to Lisps, blocks or lists don’t evaluate by default. For better or for worse, this little difference is what makes REBOL - REBOL." https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/doing_blocks/
It's difficult for a language with this semantics to be made efficient, but efficiency isn't everything.
Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#6> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value) How does it implement and , or , or if ?
This is possible with fexprs or equivalent constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr It looks like that's how Rye does it as well, blocks can be conditionally evaluated: https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/if_either/ "In REBOL, contrary to Lisps, blocks or lists don’t evaluate by default. For better or for worse, this little difference is what makes REBOL - REBOL." https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/doing_block…
>programming language based on ideas from Rebol, flavored by Factor, Linux shell and Go
That makes it potential interesting to me.
Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#7> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value) How does it implement and , or , or if ?
This is possible with fexprs or equivalent constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr It looks like that's how Rye does it as well, blocks can be conditionally evaluated: https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/if_either/ "In REBOL, contrary to Lisps, blocks or lists don’t evaluate by default. For better or for worse, this little difference is what makes REBOL - REBOL." https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/doing_block…
Why is it difficult?
Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#8> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value) How does it implement and , or , or if ?
This is possible with fexprs or equivalent constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr It looks like that's how Rye does it as well, blocks can be conditionally evaluated: https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/if_either/ "In REBOL, contrary to Lisps, blocks or lists don’t evaluate by default. For better or for worse, this little difference is what makes REBOL - REBOL." https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/doing_block…
I mean, it's possible in lambda calculus. Anything above that is sugar, right?
Re: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with some new ideas
#9> Rye is homoiconic, it has no keywords or special forms (everything is a function call, everything is a value) How does it implement and , or , or if ?
Presumably as functions, the same way as excel? and(x, y) -> bool or(x, y) -> bool if(cond, funcTrue, funcFalse) -> void
Yeah I did notice in the examples
fac: fn { x } { either x = 1 { 1 } { x * fac x - 1 } }
; function that calculates factorial