Re: [BUG] Eval sets incorrect runtime metainformation

[Matt Wette]

On 6/30/24 3:27 PM, Philip McGrath wrote:
> I hadn't realized that other languages in Guile might compile to 
> Tree-IL directly instead of generating syntax objects. Is that common 
> and/or encouraged? It seems like it would require the new language's 
> compiler to do a lot of work that could otherwise be delegated to 
> Guile, and it would make it difficult to implement parts of the new 
> language using macros.

I've written a LALR parser generator (based on the algorithm in the 
dragon book) and have produced
a few sample parsers and compilers.  I always compile to tree-il. See 
the javascript and mlang
subdirs under 
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nyacc.git/tree/examples/nyacc/lang

Matt