jolt/host/chez/seed
Yogthos a99991a818 defn- marks :private; ns-publics drops private vars
defn- now adds :private to the var metadata (like Clojure), and ns-publics
filters those out while ns-interns/ns-map keep them — they were all the same
unfiltered scan before. A lib that introspects ns-publics (honeysql asserts
every public helper has a docstring, and that the clause set matches the public
helpers) saw the private defn- helpers and failed; now honeysql 636/8 -> 638/6
(the rest are map key-order).
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image.ss defn- marks :private; ns-publics drops private vars 2026-06-27 01:27:47 -04:00
prelude.ss defn- marks :private; ns-publics drops private vars 2026-06-27 01:27:47 -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.