#29 helps but does not fix this. If recursive calls are in tail position, we won't get stack overflows. But beginners may overflow the stack by non-tail recursive calls, and we don't want that to…
The solution to this is to ensure that all relevant functions in the Janet interpreter are themselves written in a way that Janet's TCO takes care of it. (In theory.) Current practice in the…
One design issue that's not so easy-peasy: refs would now need globally unique names.
That's probably good enough for Computer Class, which probably won't use refs except under the hood.
Poss…
Implemented in 5deab18356. Not closing yet for to do more testing. At current, the following works as expected:
match "You are the eggman" with {
"I {verb} the {noun}" -> (verb, noun)
…Okay. I figured out how to do this, more or less.
Zig is great, but its build system is very powerful, very complicated and seriously under-documented.
(See, e.g., https://ziggit.dev/t/buildi…
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ensure :errors is always a tuple or array, never nil; allows (empty? (scanner :errors)) to work as a test for errors