jolt/.dirge/skills/jolt-dev/SKILL.md
Yogthos 679cc1d4ef fix: persistent hash map — simple array-based, fully working
Replaced bit-trie HAMT with simple array-based implementation.
Janet 64-bit doubles cannot reliably express 32-bit signed integer
operations required by HAMT (bitmap indexing, popcount, etc).

New design:
- find-key-index: linear scan for key matching
- node-assoc: append-to-array on new key, clone+update on existing
- node-find: linear scan for value retrieval
- O(n) for small maps, equivalent semantics

All operations verified:
  (hash-map :a 1)         → {:root [:a 1], count=1}
  (hash-map :a 1 :b 2)    → {:root [:a 1 :b 2], count=2}
  phm-assoc/phm-get/phm-count/phm-contains? all correct
  Value replacement preserves count correctly
2026-06-02 13:41:47 -04:00

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jolt-dev

Jolt development workflow — build, test, special form patterns, Janet gotchas

Jolt Development

Build & Test

cd /Users/yogthos/src/jolt
jpm build           # produces build/jolt
jpm test            # runs all tests
janet test/foo.janet  # run a single test file from project root

Special Form Checklist

To add a new special form to the evaluator:

  1. Add the name to special-symbol? in src/jolt/evaluator.janet
  2. Add a match arm in eval-list (the match on name)
  3. Add tests in test/evaluator-test.janet

The match arm receives ctx, bindings, and form (the full list). Use (in form 1) for first arg, etc.

Non-symbol heads (keywords, etc.): eval-list first checks (and (struct? first-form) (= :symbol (...))) before extracting name. If not a symbol, falls through to default function application.

Current special forms (22):

quote, syntax-quote, unquote, unquote-splicing, do, if, def, defmacro, fn*, let*, loop*, recur, throw, try, set!, var, locking, instance?, defmulti, defmethod, deftype, new, .

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