Added command-line flags, some of which actually work.

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Simon Brooke 2019-08-19 16:52:36 +01:00
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@ -7,10 +7,62 @@ LISP 1.5 is to all Lisp dialects as Beowulf is to Emglish literature.
A work-in-progress towards an implementation of Lisp 1.5 in Clojure. The
objective is to build a complete and accurate implementation of Lisp 1.5
as described in the manual, with, in so far as is possible, exactly the
same bahaviour; the only intended deviation is that the parser reads
'mexprs' (meta language expressions) as well as sexprs.
same bahaviour - except as documented below.
## BUT WHY?!!?!
### Status
Boots to REPL, but few functions yet available.
### Architectural plan
Not everything documented in this section is yet built. It indicates the
direction of travel and intended destination, not the current state.
#### resources/lisp1.5.lsp
The objective is to have within `resources/lisp1.5.lsp`, all those functions
defined in the Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual which can be implemented in Lisp.
This means that, while Beowulf is hosted on Clojure, all that would be
required to rehost Lisp 1.5 on a different platform would be to reimplement
* bootstrap.clj
* host.clj
* read.clj
#### beowulf/boostrap.clj
This file is essentially Lisp as defined in Chapter 1 (pages 1-14) of the
Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual; that is to say, a very simple Lisp language,
which should, I believe, be sufficient in conjunction with the functions
provided by `beowulf.host`, be sufficient to bootstrap the full Lisp 1.5
interpreter.
In addition it contains the function `INTEROP`, which allows host language
functions to be called from Lisp.
#### beowulf/host.clj
This file provides Lisp 1.5 functions which can't be (or can't efficiently
be) implemented in Lisp 1.5, which therefore need to be implemented in the
host language, in this case Clojure.
#### beowulf/read.clj
This file provides the reader required for boostrapping. It's not a bad
reader - it provides feedback on errors found in the input - but it isn't
the real Lisp reader.
Intended deviations from the behaviour of the real Lisp reader are as follows:
1. It reads the meta-expression language `MEXPR` in addition to the
symbolic expression language `SEXPR`, which I do not believe the Lisp 1.5
reader ever did;
2. It treats everything between a semi-colon and an end of line as a comment,
as most modern Lisps do; but I do not believe Lisp 1.5 had this feature.
### BUT WHY?!!?!
Because.
@ -25,7 +77,11 @@ Because I'm barking mad, and this is therapy.
## Installation
Download from http://example.com/FIXME.
At present, clone the source and build it using
`lein uberjar`.
You will require to have [Leiningen](https://leiningen.org/) installed.
## Usage