Starts taking the reader off Janet (src/jolt/reader.janet, 831 lines) into
portable jolt-core Clojure. jolt.reader holds the lexing/parsing LOGIC; form
construction + string->number parsing delegate to the jolt.host contract — a
Clojure source file can't write a {:jolt/type :symbol} literal (parses as a
tagged form) and the concrete representation is the host's to own. Same split the
analyzer/emitter already use. Once cross-compiled this runs on Chez so compile-
from-source needs no Janet reader.
inc 5a = the atom layer: whitespace/comments, symbols (+ nil/true/false),
keywords, strings (escapes), numbers (sign/hex/radix/ratio/fractional/exponent,
trailing N/M), characters. Collections, quote/deref/meta and dispatch (#) follow
in 5b/5c (throw not-yet-ported). Positions are char indices (Janet uses bytes);
identical for ASCII and the gate compares form VALUES, not positions.
host_iface.janet gains four reader primitives on the contract: form-make-symbol,
form-make-char, form-char-from-name, form-scan-number (the irreducible host bits
the portable reader rests on). Additive — new jolt.host interns, nothing else
changed.
Surfaced jolt-if19 (Janet seed reader: +N literals error instead of reading as N;
read-number strips only the - sign). The port reproduces it; both-throw counts as
faithful parity in the gate.
Gate: reader-parity 64/64 (symbols/keywords/strings/ints/hex/radix/ratio/floats/
exponent/N-M/chars). Full jpm gate green after clean rebuild, conformance 355x3.
jolt-50xx.
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