dragoncoder047/phoo

My (broken) first attempt at a Javascript concatenative programming language. DOES NOT WORK RIGHT NOW

• I mostly use Javascript for web apps and Python for tools.
• I picked up C++ and C via the use of Arduinos and have been self-taught otherwise.
• I enjoy functional, homoiconic, and object-oriented langauges (especially Scheme) but have not had much experience using Scheme or Lisp. I'm trying to design one of my own but so far it's all just theoretical.
• I have a blog that I occasionally write stuff on.
• I am a member of the Conwaylife.com forums under the username wirehead.
• I have a YouTube channel -- check that out when you get a chance.

Some of my projects

• Schemascii - A Python program to convert ASCII art circuit diagrams into nice SVG schematics.
• uLisp fork - My fork of uLisp with new, experimental features.
• Langton-Music - A simulator for musical Langton's Ant.
• Armdroid 1000 - A website about the old Armdroid 1000 with a bunch of resources (manual, circuit diagram, photos, miscallaneous reverse-engineering, etc).

Noteworthy but incomplete/WIP stuff

• Parasite - A game that can't be beaten by the player: you have to teach the NPC's how to play it for you.
• PICKLE and Tinobsy - A new idea for a programming language, and a type system to implement it.

Note: I excluded Javascript from the above language stats because its verbosity (curly braces, JSDoc comments, etc.) compared to other languages artificially inflates the amount of Javascript I seem to have written. Only about 60% of those lines are meaningful code.

phoo's Issues

fix resolveNamepath - add modules

https://github.com/phoo-lang/phoo/blob/c6cf2798211f15ec8b82627d8fb5cff0322a072a/src/core/index.js#L84-L93

Search namespace stack, then modules list, then fail.

Actually finish documentation comments & generator

• Comments
• Generator script

Doc comment format:

/* >>
word> WORD
description> DESCRIPTION
sed> A -- B
A> A DESCRIPTION
B> B DESCRIPTION
*/

outputs:

WORD (A → B)

DESCRIPTION

and hovering over name in sed in heading brings up their description

foo> are the tags (like JSDoc). maybe have implied tags and have it glean the name from the next line?

Clean up random

• Remove random.js, use Phoo code
• Use PCG-random generator -- see https://github.com/imneme/pcg-c-basic/blob/master/pcg_basic.c

add libraries (inspired by Python)

• collections.counter
• itertools
• stringtools
• toml / yaml parsers
• unit testing (in progress)
• base64, base16
• base32
• colorsystems
• functools lru_cache
• hashlib (crypto.subtle)
• uncompile
• statistics
• autoformatter
• turtle graphics
• more?

Importing JS files doesn't work

Bug Description

use X crashes when you import a module that is or depends on javascript modules

To Reproduce

Web console.

Welcome to Phoo.
Version 0.2.0 (e1e8d3e)
Strict mode is ON
Press Shift+Enter for multiple lines.
(0)--> use web/fetch
Stack: []
(1)--> use random
Error!
(No stack trace)
PhooError: Expected at least 1 items on stack, got 0
Stack: []
(2)--> 

web/fetch is OK because it is pure Phoo. random crashes because it depends on math which depends on _fmath and _imath which are JS.

Expected Output

Importing random succeeds.

Javascript Information

• Browser version: Chrome 96.0.4664.207 64-bit
• JS engine version: V8 9.6.180.33
• Latest Phoo commit hash that has the bug: See banner in console output above.

add support for `actions` in `notification.send`using service worker

Uncaught TypeError: Failed to construct 'Notification': Actions are only supported for persistent notifications shown using ServiceWorkerRegistration.showNotification().

https://github.com/phoo-lang/phoo/blob/5f3ae8813eed9ad0d8b699c99fb7296181b34bd5/lib/web/notifications.ph#L53

`random.01` produces negative values

To Reproduce

Welcome to Phoo.
Version 0.2.0 (f343500)
Strict mode is ON
Press Shift+Enter for multiple lines.
(0)--> use random 89496 random.seed random.01 echo
-0.2356127928942442
Stack empty.
(1)-->

Expected Output

Not ever negative!

hackey using boolean to detect race conditions.

https://github.com/phoo-lang/phoo/blob/352a488e106f3858b86435a803f0a7cb40e5995f/src/core/index.js#L111

using a boolean to detect race conditions creates race conditions.

Need to implement a threadlock

Strict mode is not obeyed

get:

Welcome to Phoo.
Strict mode is ON
(0)--> this_word_does_not_exist
Stack: [undefined]
(1)--> 

expected:

Welcome to Phoo.
Strict mode is ON
(0)--> this_word_does_not_exist
Error!
Word this_word_does_not_exist does not exist
{... 0}
(1)--> 

Implement string tags in Phoo

https://github.com/phoo-lang/phoo/blob/fdf1bc40b06f60b7f0a161396d4d89f45232331a/lib/_builtins.js#L94-L112

Currently the string tag codes are implemented in JS, but should be able to be implemented in Phoo code.

Need to:

• have a way to do that
• actually port the JS to Phoo

Macros defined in Phoo code don't work

I get:

Welcome to Phoo.
Version 0.2.0 (cfca97d)
Strict mode is ON
Press Shift+Enter for multiple lines.
(0)--> ' [ [ 1 2 + ] const ]
Stack: [[[1, 2, Symbol(+)]]]
(1)--> // drop
Stack: []
(2)-->

(0): const is not turning the [ 1 2 + ] into 3.

(1): the drop should be commented out but it isn't.

expected:

Welcome to Phoo.
Version 0.2.0 (cfca97d)
Strict mode is ON
Press Shift+Enter for multiple lines.
(0)--> ' [ [ 1 2 + ] const ]
Stack: [[3]]
(1)--> // drop
Stack: [[3]]
(2)-->

Implement `e` string tag for escapes

https://github.com/phoo-lang/phoo/blob/1633b130489f501406e3c7f71084233c1932c9b9/lib/_builtins.js#L57-L60