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inadamhaney/lispy (press backspace or delete to remove)Python is dynamically typed. Which is great, but can lead to some rather frustrating bugs. Functional languages like
Haskell make their type system an aid to a developer (instead of a hinderance like some ...
adamhaney
- Opened on Jul 12, 2013
- #20
Pure functions are functions that always have the same result for a given input. This implicitly means that all
functions that don t make system calls are pure (as system calls allow IO, time references, ...
adamhaney
- 1
- Opened on Jul 12, 2013
- #19
Since lispy is aimed at mainly providing a functional environment it would be very interesting to me if return types
could be lazy. Currently I can think of a very simple way that this would work:
Class ...
adamhaney
- Opened on Jul 12, 2013
- #18
Currently we re not testing against jython, but being able to run in jython would be really cool because the jython
interpreter can run much faster in some situations and would give lispy access to Java ...
adamhaney
- 1
- Opened on Jul 2, 2013
- #17
I didn t realize that Norvig had included a new version of lispy (lispy2) that includes many of the features I was
interested in implementing.
http://norvig.com/lispy2.html
Integrating this portion of ...
adamhaney
- 1
- Opened on Jun 28, 2013
- #15
For memoization/debuging etc it would be interesting to know the ammount of time spent in given functions (cpu time/wall
clock time/time spent in IO wait) etc. This could be used for all sorts of goodies. ...
adamhaney
- Opened on Jun 28, 2013
- #14
It would be cool if function results were stored in a cache so that recursive computations could be implemented without
recomputing values.
Ideally IMHO this a cache object should be configurable as an ...
adamhaney
- Opened on Jun 28, 2013
- #13
Currently (as of 6/28/13) the scoping class is being imported by the norvig dialect directly (which makes sense for now,
norvig scheme uses norvig scope) but in the future it would be nice if this scoping ...
adamhaney
- Opened on Jun 28, 2013
- #12
Not too sure how to do this, but everyone in the LISP community always pitches reader macros as the best reason to use
LISP, so we should probably implement them in Lispy.
adamhaney
- 1
- Opened on Jun 28, 2013
- #10
Currently you can t backspace in the repl or press the up arrow to find previous code. It would be much nicer if the
REPL functioned more like the python REPL.
adamhaney
- 1
- Opened on Jun 28, 2013
- #9

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