jolt/host/chez/seed
Yogthos 6e333b3020 Hierarchy fns follow the reference contracts; deftype classes join the class graph
derive/underive/ancestors/descendants/parents/isa? re-ported from
clojure.core with the argument assertions and throw contracts intact:
derive asserts tag/parent shapes (AssertionError) and throws on redundant
or cyclic derivation; underive/derive on a non-hierarchy value throw at the
parents lookup (the map is called as a function, like the reference);
(descendants h SomeClass) throws UnsupportedOperationException. isa? gains
the reference's supers arm (a relationship derived on a class's super
applies to the class).

The class arms now answer fully through the one class graph: parents of a
class are its direct supers (bases), ancestors are the transitive set
rooted at java.lang.Object for concrete classes (interfaces are marked and
don't root at Object, matching getSuperclass semantics). deftype/defrecord
classes register into the graph at definition — protocol interfaces they
implement appear as supers (JVM-munged ns spelling), records carry the
record interfaces (IRecord/IPersistentMap/... whose closure supplies
Associative/Seqable), bare deftypes carry IType. The type NAME var still
holds the ctor (a jolt-ism); class-key maps it back to the class so
(ancestors TypeName)/(isa? x TypeName) work. canonical-host-tag learned to
NOT canonicalize deftype names through the graph arm (extend-type on a
deftype was registering under the bare segment its values never report).

Five old corpus rows used non-namespaced derive tags that throw on the JVM
too; now namespaced. 8 new JVM-certified corpus rows; spec entries for the
hierarchy family; cts baseline 5730 -> 5781 pass (ancestors/derive/
descendants/parents/underive namespaces fully clean), 74 baselined
namespaces.
2026-07-02 08:48:30 -04:00
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image.ss Hierarchy fns follow the reference contracts; deftype classes join the class graph 2026-07-02 08:48:30 -04:00
prelude.ss Hierarchy fns follow the reference contracts; deftype classes join the class graph 2026-07-02 08:48:30 -04:00
README.md Docs: Chez-only, drop the Janet-era references and obsolete migration notes 2026-06-22 09:05:35 -04:00

Chez bootstrap seed

These two files are the bootstrap compiler for jolt — the seed that makes the build self-hosting:

  • prelude.ss — the clojure.core prelude (all tiers + clojure.string/walk/ template/edn/set/pprint) as Scheme def-var! forms.
  • image.ss — the compiler image (jolt.ir + jolt.analyzer + jolt.backend-scheme) as Scheme def-var! forms.

Both are generated, not hand-written. They are checked in because a fresh checkout must be able to build jolt-on-Chez using only Chez: host/chez/bootstrap.ss loads this seed, then rebuilds the prelude + image from the .clj/.ss sources via the on-Chez compiler (read → analyze → emit, all on Chez). The seed is a joint byte-fixpoint: rebuilding from an up-to-date seed reproduces it exactly. make selfhost (host/chez/selfcheck.sh) runs host/chez/bootstrap.ss and diffs the rebuilt artifacts against the checked-in seed.

Re-minting

When the seed sources change (the core tiers, the compiler namespaces, the host contract, the reader, emit-image.ss), the seed drifts and make selfhost fails. Re-mint it by running host/chez/bootstrap.ss and writing the freshly rebuilt prelude/image back to host/chez/seed/prelude.ss / host/chez/seed/image.ss, then commit the refreshed files.