Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Re: [new] Klong interpreted array language

Hello,

On 2023/03/31 08:59:55 -0600, j@bitminer.ca wrote:
> Here is Klong, a very terse array language.
>
> Tested on amd64, but probably good everywhere.
>
> "Klong is an expression-based language that is inspired by K,
> which is in turn inspired by APL. A Klong program is basically
> a set of functions that manipulate list or array structures.
> You might also think of Klong as a glorified calculator with a
> massive set of functions for transforming arrays in various
> ways."
>
>
> J

First time I'm playing with an array language, but the klong-intro.txt
file seems a nice introduction.

Now, regarding the port, you can avoid patching the Makefile by using
MAKE_FLAGS:

MAKE_FLAGS += CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Regarding the other patch, some nits:

- I'm not a klong user but I'd remove "lib" from DFLPATH and just
leave ".:/usr/local/lib/klong". I guess 'lib' is there so folks
can use it when building and running from the tarball.

- "accept Backspace as delete" is misleading, since you're making the
delete character to behave like a backspace :P

(you could have written '?' + '@' instead of 127 to match the style :P)

- since you're patching sys_randnum anyway I would have used
arc4random_uniform. I haven't thought if it's correct.

otherwise it looks fine to me and it seems a fun language. I'm
attaching an updated tarball that address above points that's ok op@
to import.


Thanks!

P.S.: I don't know what the current stace regarding hardcoded paths
is. Is it fine to hardcode /usr/local/lib/klong or we should do
the SUBST_CMD dance?

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