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21:56:13 <edrx> aaronl: hi :)
21:56:41 <aaronl> what are demo*?
21:57:45 <edrx> they are generated automatically... the code for the demos is in the flua-demos.lua file
21:58:24 <edrx> I generate an engine in C (as small as possible, i.e., with only the required primitives, etc)
21:58:29 <edrx> and a bytecode file
21:58:31 <edrx> in nasm
21:58:49 <edrx> because nasm generates nice ".lst"s
21:59:25 <edrx> this version still doesn't do anything very useful, it is just a proof of concept
22:01:59 <edrx> some of the things I advocate: using asm files (at least as examples) to show the bytecode,
22:02:10 <aaronl> what is [f]lua ?
22:02:22 <edrx> using a third stack and a certain trick to make words like <."> easier to code,
22:03:16 <edrx> it is a Forth-like language that doesn't have a well-defined syntax yet... its compiler is written in Lua
22:03:32 <aaronl> flua doesn't look like a forth :)
22:03:54 <aaronl> err, lua
22:04:23 <edrx> as words can have many heads syntax like : SQUARE DUP * ; make little sense
22:05:08 <edrx> so I use % SQUARE to create a dictionary entry (the dictionary is separated from the code) and I sspecify the heads explicitly
22:05:24 <edrx> % SQUARE COL: DUP * ;
22:05:33 <edrx> ou just % SQUARE : DUP * ;
22:08:54 <edrx> aaronl: http://angg.twu.net/LUA/flua-0.02/flua-demos.lua.html#flua_demo5
22:24:00 <edrx> aaronl: hi, still there?
22:24:55 <edrx> I just wanted to tell you some other concepts that are already in the proof-of-concept implementation before going to bed...
22:27:12 <edrx> it's easy (and generates very little bytecode, and nothing extra on the engine) to add words that call C functions or Lua functions...
22:28:20 <edrx> immediate words can be defined as Lua functions (that can be Flua macros)
22:28:33 <edrx> that's it for now...
22:28:36 <edrx> night
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