Re: [Chicken-users] No... but it is... interesting...

[Markus Klotzbuecher]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Felix wrote:
> From: Markus Klotzbuecher <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] No... but it is... interesting...
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:54:57 +0100
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:15:15AM -0500, Felix wrote:
> >> 
> >> This announces the availability of "SPOCK", a Scheme->JavaScript
> >> compiler and runtime system. It can statically compile
> >> really-nearly-mostly R5RS-Scheme to JS or can be used to dynamically
> >> generate code from s-expressions (say, in a web-server or CGI
> >> application). Tail-calls and first-class continuations are fully
> >> supported.
> >> 
> >> It is slow, buggy, barely tested and stresses JavaScript engines in
> >> unexpected ways. It doesn't run on IE, of course (this will be
> >> addressed, someday). Documentation is not complete yet.
> >> 
> >> If your browser supports <canvas> tags, you can try:
> >> 
> >>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/threads.html
> >> 
> >>   This application draws some graphics in call/cc-based coroutines,
> >>   the source to this is here:
> >> 
> >>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/threads.scm
> >> 
> >> The test-suite can be run at:
> >> 
> >>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/test.html
> >> 
> >>   Note that running this this takes a while and might trigger a
> >>   browser warning. Just continue executing it until it either
> >>   errors out or runs to completion.
> >> 
> >> Initial documentation can be found here:
> >> 
> >>   http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/spock
> > 
> > Very nice! Could this be used to interact with Qt QML and Quick?
> 
> I haven't used these, but if QML is ECMA-Script-compliant, I see
> no reason why it shouldn't work. I would be very interested in
> the results, in case you are going to try it out!

Ok, great! I unfortunately will not have time soon, but if I do I'll
report the results..

Best regards
Markus