Misc fixes and TODO updates.

- Truncate ruby and python stacktraces since they can get very long
  in certain cases causing problems.
- Fix Clojure West example with proper escaping.

.gitignore

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 .sbt
 .npm
 .node-gyp
+.elm
 */experiments
 */node_modules
 *.o

docs/TODO

@@ -7,17 +7,13 @@ General:
       ./core.mal to ./lib directory
 
     - Finish guide.md
-    - Refactor ./run:
-        - java: build step, don't use mvn to run
-        - plpgsql: maybe combine wrap.sh and run
-        - vhdl: combine run_vhdl.sh and run
-        - vimscript: combine run_vimscript.sh and run
+        - mention that identifier names are suggested. some have run
+          into collisions with READ,EVAL,PRINT in case insensitive
+          languages
 
 All Implementations:
     - regular expression matching in runtest
     - add re (use in rep) everywhere and use that (to avoid printing)
-    - per impl tests for step5_tco, or at least a better way of
-      enabling/disabling/tweaking per implementation
     - fix stepA soft failures: lua matlab miniMAL perl racket
 
 Other ideas for All:
@@ -55,15 +51,11 @@ Bash:
 
 C:
     - come up with better way to do 20 vararg code
-    - GC: use http://www.hboehm.info/gc/
 
 C#:
     - accumulates line breaks with mal/clojurewest2014.mal
     - interop: http://www.ckode.dk/programming/eval-in-c-yes-its-possible/
 
-Clojure:
-    - fix "\/" exception in mal/clojurewest2014.mal
-
 CoffeeScript:
     - make target to compile to JS
 
@@ -77,9 +69,9 @@ Haskell:
     - immediately exits mal/clojurewest2014.mal ("\/" exception)
 
 Java:
+    - build step, don't use mvn in run script
     - Use gradle instead of mvn
         http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/
-    - MAL formatting is a bit off with mal/clojurewest2014.mal
 
 Javascript:
     - interop: adopt techniques from miniMAL
@@ -87,9 +79,6 @@ Javascript:
 Make:
     - allow '_' in make variable names
     - hash-map with space in key string
-    - Fix: make -f stepA_mal.mk ../mal/step6_file.mal
-        (slurp "../tests/incA.mal")
-        (read-string "(+ 2 3)")
     - errors should propagate up from within load-file
     - GC: expore using "undefined" directive in Make 3.82
 
@@ -97,9 +86,6 @@ Mal:
     - line numbers in errors
     - step5_tco
 
-MATLAB:
-    - Port to support both GNU Octave and MATLAB
-
 miniMAL:
     - figure out why {} literals are "static"/persistent
 
@@ -107,6 +93,9 @@ ObjPascal:
     - verify that GC/reference counting works
     - fix comment by itself error at REPL
 
+plpgsql:
+    - maybe combine wrap.sh and run
+
 Perl:
     - fix metadata on native functions
     - fix extra line breaks at REPL
@@ -116,6 +105,14 @@ Postscript:
     - fix blank line after comments
     - fix command line arg processing (doesn't run file specified)
 
+Powershell:
+    - convert function with "abc_def" to "abc-def"
+    - remove extraneous return statements at end of functions
+    - remove unnecessary semi-colons
+    - use ArrayList instead of Array for performance
+    - new test to test Keys/keys as hash-map key
+    - test *? predicates with nil
+
 R:
     - tracebacks in errors
     - fix running from different directory
@@ -129,3 +126,9 @@ Rust:
 Scala
     - readline
     - fix exception when finished running something on command line
+
+VHDL:
+    - combine run_vhdl.sh and run
+
+vimscript:
+    - combine run_vimscript.sh and run

examples/clojurewest2014.mal

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
   (list
    (list
     (title2 " __  __    _    _")
-    (title2 "|  \/  |  / \  | |")
-    (title2 "| |\/| | / _ \ | | ")
-    (title2 "| |  | |/ ___ \| |___ ")
-    (title2 "|_|  |_/_/   \_\_____|"))
+    (title2 "|  \\/  |  / \\  | |")
+    (title2 "| |\\/| | / _ \\ | | ")
+    (title2 "| |  | |/ ___ \\| |___ ")
+    (title2 "|_|  |_/_/   \\_\\_____|"))
    (list
     (title "gherkin")
     "- a lisp1 written in bash4")

process/guide.md

@@ -1329,6 +1329,7 @@ implementation. Let us continue!
 * In the main program, use the `rep` function to define two new
   control structures macros. Here are the string arguments for `rep`
   to define these macros:
+  * TODO: note throw is not present until step9
   * `cond`: "(defmacro! cond (fn* (& xs) (if (> (count xs) 0) (list 'if (first xs) (if (> (count xs) 1) (nth xs 1) (throw \"odd number of forms to cond\")) (cons 'cond (rest (rest xs)))))))"
   * `or`: "(defmacro! or (fn* (& xs) (if (empty? xs) nil (if (= 1 (count xs)) (first xs) `(let* (or_FIXME ~(first xs)) (if or_FIXME or_FIXME (or ~@(rest xs))))))))"
 

python/step5_tco.py

@@ -97,4 +97,4 @@ while True:
         print(REP(line))
     except reader.Blank: continue
     except Exception as e:
-        print("".join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())))
+        print("".join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())[0:100]))

ruby/step5_tco.rb

@@ -103,6 +103,6 @@ while line = _readline("user> ")
         puts REP[line]
     rescue Exception => e
         puts "Error: #{e}" 
-        puts "\t#{e.backtrace.join("\n\t")}"
+        puts "\t#{e.backtrace[0..100].join("\n\t")}"
     end
 end

runtest.py

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ class Runner():
                 new_data = new_data.decode("utf-8") if IS_PY_3 else new_data
                 #print("new_data: '%s'" % new_data)
                 debug(new_data)
+                # Perform newline cleanup
                 if self.no_pty:
                     self.buf += new_data.replace("\n", "\r\n")
                 else: