Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars

Post by ahmed1hsn » Mon, May 11, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC

Chemaclass wrote: post #7

pkphilip wrote: post #6

It would be great if the Phel repl could connect to a running PHP process

Phel has deep PHP interop built into the language: call any PHP function, instantiate classes, access globals via the php/ namespace from anywhere in your code. We also ship a Phel nREPL: a bencode-over-TCP server (phel nrepl) compatible with editor tooling like Calva, CIDER, and Conjure. Connect your editor and evaluate Phel code against a running process directly.

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Mon, May 11, 2026, 1:37 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 11, 2026, 6:02 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #13

This is fun to see. I wonder how they handle the fact that PHP puts every type of thing in its own namespace (names of classes, functions, constants, methods, variables, member variables, static variables and class constants don't conflict with eachother) and how not all namespaces have case-sensitivity. That's very un-lisp, maybe it just uses its own lisp-specific namespace?

Post by pkphilip » Thu, May 14, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

Chemaclass wrote: post #7

pkphilip wrote: post #6

It would be great if the Phel repl could connect to a running PHP process

Phel has deep PHP interop built into the language: call any PHP function, instantiate classes, access globals via the php/ namespace from anywhere in your code. We also ship a Phel nREPL: a bencode-over-TCP server (phel nrepl) compatible with editor tooling like Calva, CIDER, and Conjure. Connect your editor and evaluate Phel code against a running process directly.