yolisp is useless

[hikari-no-yume]

Needs some of these things probably:

• Conditional (traditionally cond, I'd prefer (if <expr> <true> <false>))
• cons, head and tail (how do you even lisp without them c'mon)
• s-expression syntax (or does it???)
• let
• Would be nice if you didn't have to quote numbers, ['+', ['quote', 2], ['quote', 2]] is dumb, c'mon even scheme supports (+ 1 2)
• TAIL-CALL RECURSION????????????????

Stuff we do have already so we don't need to add it:

• lambda
• eq (== and != operators)
• ALL THE DATA TYPES
• most functions you could think of, cus we have the whole of PHP and a bajillion libraries

Stuff we could add that'd be pretty cool I mean yeah wouldn't it just be

• -> and :: operators
• A way to call class methods
• Constants, though this is unnecessary in practice, as when entering code as a series of PHP array literals, you can just do ['quote', __FILE__] or w/e

With those, we could reimplement core yolo in yolisp.

See: http://bodil.org/building-lisp/#30

[hikari-no-yume]

Also if we could keep it small and somehow all within that function (yolisp), that'd be great, and I'm p sure we can as all these things are tiny. Shortening the operator functions implementation down a bit would help w/ that.

[hikari-no-yume]

Oh, I forgot the most important one, we need lexically scoped closures, errybody loves closures:

Though I suppose we already have them, you just can't mutate state. And immutability is good!

[igorw]

head? tail? what is this blasphemy?

[hikari-no-yume]

@igorw Haskell has head and tail, don't you like Haskell? ;)

[igorw]

I cdr drive over haskell with my car

[hikari-no-yume]

you over haskell with my nil?

[igorw]

type error!

[hikari-no-yume]

Wait, I know. 'Auto' and 'Cédérom'?

[igorw]

we should totally support CD-ROMs on lists

[hikari-no-yume]

cons, car, cdr: https://github.com/igorw/yolo/pull/21