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4 points by dram 3959 days ago | link | parent

Yes, That is the problem!

Here is a quick and dirty patch for arc3.1, it postpones string-copy and let it run by eval.

Not sure if it will cause some other problem.

  50,51c50,51
  <           (unescape-ats s))
  <       (string-copy s)))          ; avoid immutable strings
  ---
  >           `(string-copy ,(unescape-ats s)))
  >       `(string-copy ,s)))          ; avoid immutable strings


3 points by Pauan 3959 days ago | link

Fixed in Arc/Nu:

https://github.com/Pauan/ar/commit/a2c1939936846b665eccf06d0...

Thanks for finding the bug, and the great idea for fixing it.

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3 points by dram 3959 days ago | link

Your fix is cleaner. :)

BTW, I think `(unescape-ats s)` also needs to be treated as the same.

So that it will not fail when atstrings is set.

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1 point by Pauan 3958 days ago | link

Ah yes, excellent catch:

https://github.com/Pauan/ar/commit/95f13f757a52a5d07f5467603...

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1 point by akkartik 3959 days ago | link

Ingenious! Do you have a github account? You should be the one to fix this in anarki :)

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2 points by dram 3959 days ago | link

OK.

I'd like to run some tests to make sure it does not cause much problem.

I found this one:

https://github.com/conanite/rainbow/tree/master/src/arc/lib/...

But it failed with following error when using arc3.1.

  arc> (load "unit-test.arc")
  nil
  arc> (rat)
  Error: "_dfn: undefined;\n cannot reference undefined identifier"

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2 points by akkartik 3959 days ago | link

That's a good idea. Did the tests pass without your changes?

I've added a few piecemeal tests over the years (all the .t files in the repo), and there's also some tests in my curated repo (http://github.com/akkartik/arc). All those seem ok..

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Looks like dfn is a rainbow innovation: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10539

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Update 1 hour later: almost all rainbow tests pass! I had to disable the dfn tests, and the ssyntax tests at the bottom of core-evaluation-test were hanging. Other than that it's all good.

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2 points by dram 3959 days ago | link

Great!

I'll make a pull request later.

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2 points by akkartik 3959 days ago | link

Thanks for the commit! I've merged https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/commit/1bc954f598 and given you commit rights to anarki.

I've also added/plagiarized rainbow's tests to the repo: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/commit/68be3c0f4d. Joys of the perl artistic license.

There's still a couple of syntax tests that are failing, likely because of test harness issues. And I'd like to unify all the different tests into a single framework. For future work..

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Update 43 minutes later: it turns out rainbow's ssyntax precedence rules were different. Perhaps anarki changed at some point. Those tests are now fixed.

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1 point by dram 3959 days ago | link

Thanks, well done.

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