Hello :D

[LiamWJH]

Hello I am a python enjoyer that is currently making a small lisp ish interpreter. I saw this awesome project you managed to made and thought maybe if you have extra time you might help with this small project of mine?

(Please~~~)

[6502]

Hello... I took a quick look and saw that you started with a tokenizer and an AST etc... Normally that is the path with languages like C or Python, but in lisp (usually) you use a quite different approach. The main reason is that in Lisp a programmer can customize even the "reading" part (the conversion from characters to s-expressions is called normally "reading" in lisp circles). First of all there is no "tokenization", instead there are different routines for each kind of object (e.g. list, string, symbol/number ...) Then there is a table that given a character tells which function to call, an this table can be customized by the programmer. I made a full video on this subtle difference some time ago... it was an experiment about using an AI voice. https://youtu.be/kc7tSn4lT3s Andrea

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[LiamWJH]

Tysm! Even though this new concept was quite outlandish to me I see what a lisp interpreter should do... however I don't think I can properly implement it😭😭😭
I'm gonna try make a lisp that is not a lisp I guess
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