driver.janet now compiles IR via the portable Clojure emitter (jolt.backend-
scheme) instead of emit.janet, at every entry point (compile-program, emit-core-
prelude, eval-e-with-prelude). The emitter is loaded into the ctx and called like
the analyzer. emit.janet stays only as the emit/program string-wrapper until
program assembly ports to Clojure with compile-from-source; its emit fn is no
longer called anywhere (emit-test's truthy-elision helper now uses the new
d/scheme-emit too). This takes the IR->Scheme emitter off Janet.
A form-by-form diff of the two emitters over the whole prelude found one gap:
emit-const missed char literals because a :jolt/type-tagged struct is not a plain
jolt map? — switched to the form-char? host contract. Diff then 0.
jolt-chez prelude fingerprint now includes backend_scheme.clj + host_iface.janet.
Gate: full prelude corpus 2280/2494, NEW divergence 0, same buckets as the Phase-2
emit.janet floor (36 emit-fail, 170 crash) — the Clojure emitter is byte-for-
behavior identical. emit-test 331/331 (now via the Clojure emitter), emit-parity
58/58. jolt-duot.
Completes the op coverage of the portable Clojure emitter — it now handles every
op emit.janet does (const/local/var/the-var/host/host-static/host-new/if/do/
invoke/vector/set/map/quote/throw/try/regex/inst/uuid/host-call/let/loop/recur/
fn/def). Adds emit-try (guard + dynamic-wind), :throw, :regex/:inst/:uuid, and
:host-call (jolt-host-call for rt-shimmed methods else record-method-dispatch).
def-meta + quoted-symbol-meta needed emit-quoted to reconstruct plain jolt VALUES
(metadata maps), not just reader forms. The blocker was that :meta arrived as a
raw Janet table embedded in the IR — jolt's count/map?/keys don't work on a table
(counter to jolt.ir's 'no host values embedded'). Fixed at the host seam:
h-sym-meta now returns the meta as an immutable struct, which is a portable jolt
map (jolt count/map?/keys work on a struct, and the Janet backend's merge/get
still do too). emit-quoted handles both reader forms (jolt.host form-* contract)
and jolt-value collections (native map?/vector?/set?/seq? branches, after the
form-* branches so reader forms win).
Gate: emit-parity 55/55 (incl try/catch/finally, ^:private def-var-with-meta!
structural check, inst/uuid eq, regex smoke, quoted-sym-meta). Full jpm gate
green after clean rebuild (seed change). jolt-me6m.
Adds :vector/:map/:set (emit-ordered, left-to-right element eval) and :quote to
the portable Clojure emitter. Collection-literal nodes carry already-analyzed IR
items so they just recurse; quote walks the RAW reader form.
emit-quoted walks the reader form via the jolt.host form-* contract (form-list?/
form-elements/form-vec-items/form-map-pairs/form-set-items/form-sym-*), the same
portable seam the analyzer uses — not host-native predicates, so it works
unchanged whether the form came from the Janet reader or the Chez reader. Reader
forms are raw host representations (Janet list=array, vec=tuple), so native
list?/vector? would not see them; the contract is the correct abstraction and
keeps the emitter host-neutral. Quoted-symbol metadata and def-meta still defer
to inc 3.
Surfaced a latent Janet-host bug (jolt-tg9s): (quote #{...}) evaluates to the raw
reader form instead of a reconstructed set, so (contains? (quote #{:p :q}) :p) is
false on build/jolt. The Chez emitter is correct (real Clojure: true); the parity
test asserts the verified value for those two cases.
Gate: emit-parity 42/42 (incl vector/map/set literals, coll/kw-as-fn, quoted
list/vec/map/set/symbol/nested). emit-test 331/331, conformance 355x3. jolt-7jvp.
First spine increment of self-hosting the compiler on Chez. The IR->Scheme
emitter is host/chez/emit.janet (Janet); to get the analyzer emitting its own
code on Chez with no Janet, the emitter logic has to be portable Clojure that
cross-compiles and runs on Chez itself.
jolt-core/jolt/backend-scheme.clj ports the core ops: const/local/var/the-var/
if/do/let/loop/recur/invoke (+ native-ops)/fn/def, plus the chez-str-lit/flonum/
munge/truthy-elision helpers and prelude-mode. Output is Scheme source text, op-
for-op with emit.janet. recur-target/known-procs are dynamic vars (auto-restore,
no throw-leak). Quote, collection literals, try/throw, host interop, regex/inst/
uuid and program assembly come in later increments (they throw not-yet-ported).
Gate: test/chez/emit-parity.janet loads the Clojure emitter interpreted on the
Janet host and runs each case through it -> Chez -> compares to the Janet CLI
oracle. 18/18 incl fib, factorial loop, multi-arity, variadic, higher-order,
#() shorthand, the mandelbrot kernel. emit-test 331/331 (emit.janet path
untouched), conformance 355x3. jolt-hg7z.
