[9fans] and now, for something completely different...

[elliott Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com]

schwartz+9fans@bio.cse.psu.edu wrote:
> 
> Kazumi Iwane <iwane@lit.rd.nttdata.co.jp> writes:
> | Oops. Hugs is not a lisp/scheme interpreter, but it's
> | a haskell interpreter. Sorry.
> 
> Close enough. :-)
> What sort of changes were required?

Either hack out the disgusting misuse of #if or use APE. Run mk and wait
until the compiler stops with an error about running out of registers
(IIRC), break the multi-line deeply-nested return statement in two (i.e.
do half the work into a temporary, then return the rest of the expr
using the temporary) and mk again. I think there are only a couple of
places where you have to do this. You might want to edit the nasty
terminal-handling stuff too (i.e. strip it all out). I hacked 8&frac12;
to let me read the window width in characters (I used lucida sans
typewriter, so it made sense for me) so that the output routines knew
where to word wrap. I'm not sure it was worth it.

Anyway, in short, it's dead easy. Particularly if you use ape.

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