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Yogthos e17bcfd0af clojure.string toString coercion; some-fn/ifn? reference semantics; misc host gaps 
The clojure.string case fns and searches now take any Object s through its
toString like the reference's ^CharSequence signatures ((upper-case :kw) is
":KW", (capitalize 1) is "1"); nil throws, and a nil substr in
starts-with?/ends-with? throws. some-fn re-ported with the reference
arities: (some-fn) is an arity error and a no-match result is the last
predicate's own falsy value (false, not nil). ifn? covers multimethods,
promises (which are now invocable — calling one delivers, via a cold-path
invoke-arm registry that costs the hot dispatch nothing), and deftypes
implementing IFn's invoke.

One structural find on the way: defmulti/defmethod deferred inside a fn
body (the deftest pattern) interned/resolved in whatever namespace was
current when they RAN, not the one they were written in — the macros now
bake their expansion ns and the setups honor it.

Also: Boolean/Integer/Double wrapper ctors, primitive TYPE statics
(Integer/TYPE etc.), .reduce on collections (IReduce), and Long/TYPE.

cts baseline 5857 -> 5904 pass, 58 -> 28 errors, 57 baselined namespaces —
the string cluster, some-fn, ifn-qmark, boolean-qmark, and reduce
namespaces are all fully clean. 7 JVM-certified corpus rows; spec entry.
2026-07-02 11:38:37 -04:00
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image.ss clojure.string toString coercion; some-fn/ifn? reference semantics; misc host gaps 2026-07-02 11:38:37 -04:00
prelude.ss clojure.string toString coercion; some-fn/ifn? reference semantics; misc host gaps 2026-07-02 11:38:37 -04:00
README.md Docs: Chez-only, drop the Janet-era references and obsolete migration notes 2026-06-22 09:05:35 -04:00

README.md

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.