R: add time-ms. Readline history. Misc cleanups.

.gitignore

@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ rust/target/
 rust/mal
 rust/Cargo.lock
 rust/.cargo
+r/lib

README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Description
 
 Mal is an interpreter for a subset of the Clojure programming
-language. Mal is implemented from scratch in 15 different languages:
+language. Mal is implemented from scratch in 16 different languages:
 
 * Bash shell
 * C
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ language. Mal is implemented from scratch in 15 different languages:
 * PHP
 * Postscript
 * Python
+* R
 * Ruby
 * Rust
 
@@ -173,6 +174,16 @@ cd python
 python stepX_YYY.py
 ```
 
+### R
+
+The R implementation of mal requires R (r-base-core) to run.
+
+```
+cd r
+make libs
+Rscript stepX_YYY.rb
+```
+
 ### Ruby (1.8)
 
 ```

docs/TODO

@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ Python:
     - error: python ../python/stepA_interop.py ../mal/stepA_interop.mal ../mal/stepA_interop.mal
     - interop tests
 
+R:
+    - readline history
+    - tracebacks in errors
+
 Ruby:
 
 
@@ -90,6 +94,11 @@ Future Implementations:
         - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23942627/does-rust-0-10-have-a-rl-package
         - http://blog.skylight.io/rust-means-never-having-to-close-a-socket/
 
+    - R
+        - https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/readline.html
+        - http://dssm.unipa.it/CRAN/web/packages/rdyncall/rdyncall.pdf
+        - http://www.dyncall.org/docs/FFI.pdf
+
     - Redmonk languages from Jan 2014:
         http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2014/01/lang-rank-114-wm.png
     
@@ -97,24 +106,24 @@ Future Implementations:
             * JavaScript
             * Java
             * PHP
-            * C#
             * Python
+            * C#
             - C++
             * Ruby
             * C
             - Objective-C
-            * Perl 
             * Shell (Bash 4)
+            * Perl
 
         - Tier 2
             - R
             - Scala
             - Haskell
-            * Clojure
-            - CoffeeScript
             - Visual Basic
+            - CoffeeScript
+            * Clojure
             - Groovy
-            - Go
+            * Go
             - Lua
             - Erlang
             - Emacs Lisp

r/core.r

@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ core_ns <- list(
     "-"=function(a,b) a-b,
     "*"=function(a,b) a*b,
     "/"=function(a,b) a/b,
+    "time-ms"=function() round(as.numeric(Sys.time())*1000),
 
     "list"=new.list,
     "list?"=function(a) .list_q(a),

r/readline.r

@@ -1,16 +1,40 @@
 ..readline.. <- TRUE
 
+HISTORY_FILE = paste(path.expand("~"), "/.mal-history", sep="")
+
 library(rdyncall, lib.loc="lib/")
 
-#rllib <- dynfind(c("edit"))
-rllib <- dynfind(c("readline"))
-rl <- .dynsym(rllib,"readline")
+#.rllib <- dynfind(c("edit"))
+.rllib <- dynfind(c("readline"))
+.call_readline <- .dynsym(.rllib,"readline")
+.call_add_history <- .dynsym(.rllib,"add_history")
 
-readline <- function(prompt) {
-    res <- .dyncall(rl, "Z)p", prompt)
+.state <- new.env()
+.state$rl_history_loaded = FALSE
+
+.readline <- function(prompt) {
+    res <- .dyncall(.call_readline, "Z)p", prompt)
     if (is.nullptr(res)) {
         return(NULL)
     } else {
         return(ptr2str(res))
     }
 }
+
+readline <- function(prompt) {
+    if (!.state$rl_history_loaded) {
+        .state$rl_history_loaded <- TRUE
+
+        lines <- scan(HISTORY_FILE, what="", sep="\n", quiet=TRUE)
+        for(add_line in lines) {
+            .dyncall(.call_add_history, "Z)v", add_line)
+        }
+    }
+
+    line <- .readline(prompt)
+    if (is.null(line)) return(NULL)
+    .dyncall(.call_add_history, "Z)v", line)
+    write(line, file=HISTORY_FILE, append=TRUE)
+
+    line
+}

r/step9_try.r

@@ -176,7 +176,11 @@ Env.set(repl_env, "*ARGV*", new.list())
 args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE)
 if (length(args) > 0) {
     Env.set(repl_env, "*ARGV*", new.listl(slice(list(args),2)))
-    . <- rep(concat("(load-file \"", args[[1]], "\")"))
+    tryCatch({
+        . <- rep(concat("(load-file \"", args[[1]], "\")"))
+    }, error=function(err) {
+        cat("Error: ", get_error(err),"\n", sep="")
+    })
     quit(save="no", status=0)
 }
 

r/stepA_interop.r

@@ -176,7 +176,11 @@ Env.set(repl_env, "*ARGV*", new.list())
 args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE)
 if (length(args) > 0) {
     Env.set(repl_env, "*ARGV*", new.listl(slice(list(args),2)))
-    . <- rep(concat("(load-file \"", args[[1]], "\")"))
+    tryCatch({
+        . <- rep(concat("(load-file \"", args[[1]], "\")"))
+    }, error=function(err) {
+        cat("Error: ", get_error(err),"\n", sep="")
+    })
     quit(save="no", status=0)
 }