Archive for the ‘lisp’ Category

Emacs CVS HEAD (finally) has anti-aliased fonts

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

The emacs-unicode-2 branch has been merged into the main branch. This means really good looking fonts for everyone on X11.

Get it now:


cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co

cd emacs

./configure --with-xpm --with-tiff --with-jpeg --with-png --with-freetype --with-xft --with-rsvg --with-gtk --enable-font-backend

make bootstrap

make

sudo make install

There's no gui interface to select these fonts. I just put the following entry in my .Xresources:

Emacs*font: Monospace-10

Replace "Monospace-10" with whatever font you like.

Arc is released

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

As one or two of my readers may know, Arc is a project by Paul Graham to produce a new Lisp/Scheme dialect for the future. Up till now details about it have been very sparse, but today the first version was released.

From the notes:

Arc embodies just about every form of political incorrectness possible in a programming language. It doesn't have strong typing, or even type declarations; it uses overlays on hash tables instead of conventional objects; its macros are unhygienic; it doesn't distinguish between falsity and the empty list, or between form and content in web pages; it doesn't have modules or any predefined form of encapsulation except closures; it doesn't support any character sets except ascii. Such things may have their uses, but there's also a place for a language that skips them, just as there is a place in architecture for markers as well as laser printers.

Sounds like a combo of JavaScript and Common Lisp to me, though I'm slightly disappointed about the (current) use of ASCII as the only charset.

When I've played with it a bit I may post more.

Get it here!

Update: here's a tutorial

Joost.

European Common Lisp Meeting, Amsterdam, April 19/20, 2008

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

From comp.lang.lisp:

Arthur Lemmens and Edi Weitz are proud to announce the European Common Lisp Meeting 2008. The meeting will consist of a Sunday full of talks on April 20, 2008, with optional dinners on Saturday and Sunday evening.

http://weitz.de/eclm2008/

Slime video

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Using SLIME, door Marco Baringer is een interessante introductie van SLIME (dé Emacs Lisp mode). Ruby/perl etc mensen opgelet! Zo doe je een "IDE" in een dynamische taal - geen statische bron-code analyse, maar directe interactie met je runtime.

Download 149Mb video in goeie kwaliteit: torrent - HTTP download.

Of bekijk de preview op google video (onleesbaar!).

Deze en meer videos op cliki.net.

Javascript regex en string literal highlighting in Emacs

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

De beste javascript mode voor Emacs is deze van Karl Landström. Hij heeft alleen moeite met het correct detecteren van strings en regexes:

Voor

Niet leuk als je de source van jQuery opent. (Waarschuwing, dit crasht emacs!)

Ook niet leuk is dat Emacs' ingebouwde syntax-table niet overweg kan
met de complete overloading van / in Javascript (als deel-operator, regex quote, en 2 soorten commentaar marker). Boeh voor Emacs!

De oplossing is dan om alle auto-quoting uit te zetten en het zelf te doen. Kan je net zulke ingewikkelde syntax mee highlighten als je wilt. Hoera voor Emacs!

Relevante passages:

;; --- Syntax Table And Parsing ---

(defvar javascript-mode-syntax-table
  (let ((table (make-syntax-table)))
    (c-populate-syntax-table table)

    ;; switch off build-in quoted string detection
    ;; since that just makes it really hard to detect
    ;; regular expressions and comments
    ;;
    ;; this also has the benefit that multiline strings
    ;; are now not recognized as strings (since javascript does
    ;; not allow them)
    (modify-syntax-entry ?' "." table)
    (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "." table)

    ;; The syntax class of underscore should really be `symbol' ("_")
    ;; but that makes matching of tokens much more complex as e.g.
    ;; "\\" matches part of e.g. "_xyz" and "xyz_abc". Defines
    ;; it as word constituent for now.
    (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w" table)

    table)
  "Syntax table used in JavaScript mode.")
 
(defconst js-quoted-string-re "\\(\".*?[^\\]\"\\|'.*?[^\\]'\\)")
 
(defconst js-quoted-string-or-regex-re "\\(/.*?[^\\]/\\w*\\|\".*?[^\\]\"\\|'.*?[^\\]'\\)")
 
(defconst js-font-lock-keywords-1
  (list
   "\\<import\\>"
   (list js-function-heading-1-re 1 font-lock-function-name-face)
   (list js-function-heading-2-re 1 font-lock-function-name-face)
 
   ;; detect literal strings following a + operator
   (list (concat "+[ \t]*" js-quoted-string-re)  1 font-lock-string-face)
 
   ;; detect literal strings used in "literal object" keys
   (list (concat "[,{][ \t]*" js-quoted-string-re "[ \t]*:" ) 1 font-lock-string-face)
 
   ;; detects strings and regexes when assigned, passed, returned
   ;; used as an object key string (i.e. bla["some string"]), when used
   ;; as a literal object value (i.e. key: "string"), used as an array
   ;; element, or when they appear as the first expression on a line
   ;; and a few other hairy cases
   (list (concat "[=(:,;[][ \t]*" js-quoted-string-or-regex-re)  1 font-lock-string-face)
   (list (concat "^[ \t]*"      js-quoted-string-or-regex-re) 1 font-lock-string-face)
   (list (concat "return[ \t]*" js-quoted-string-or-regex-re) 1 font-lock-string-face)
 
   ;; detect "autoquoted" object properties... clases with "switch { ...  default: }"
   ;; may not be worth the trouble
   (list "\\(^[ \t]*\\|[,{][ \t]*\\)\\(\\w+\\):" 2 font-lock-string-face))
 
  "Level one font lock.")
 

En dan:
Na

Patch is onderweg naar Karl. In de tussentijd kun je hier mijn versie downloaden.

lispcast.com - Lisp videos

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

LispCast is a series of screencasts of Common Lisp development.

Lispcast laat in een serie van videos zien hoe je in Common Lisp een web applicatie schrijft, test, refactored en verder... Interessant materiaal.

De komende sessie gaat over database persistence - ik ben benieuwd!

Ps: als je cl-who niet kent, dan is de 1e aflevering alleen al interessant om te zien hoe veel schoner html/xml er uit ziet als je ze met s-expressions schrijft.

Lisp, functies, macros en expressieve code

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Ik ben jaren geleden al eens begonnen aan een Perl module om (onder andere) modulaire synthesizers te emuleren. En dat werkte wel, maar mooi was het niet:

Maak wat processors....

 
    my $net = Audio::LADSPA::Network->new();
    my $sine = $net->add_plugin( label => 'sine_fcac' );
    my $delay = $net->add_plugin( label => 'delay_5s' );
    my $play = $net->add_plugin('Audio::LADSPA::Plugin::Play');
 

verbind ze met mekaar en zet parameters...

 
    $net->connect($sine,'Output',$delay,'Input');
    $net->connect($delay,'Output',$play,'Input');
 
    $sine->set('Frequency (Hz)' => 440); # set freq
    $sine->set(Amplitude => 1);   # set amp
 
    $delay->set('Delay (Seconds)' => 1); # 1 sec delay
    $delay->set('Dry/Wet Balance' => 0.2); # balance - 0.2
 

en draaien maar!

 
    for ( 0 .. 100 ) {
        $net->run(100);
    }
 

Allemaal leuk, maar veel te veel typ werk en behoorlijk complex.

Op vakantie heb ik laatst Practical Common Lisp doorgelezen en dan ga je natuurlijk denken dat dat beter kan als je functies gebruikt ipv complexe objecten en dat het er in Lisp veel beter uit kan zien.

Dat is dus ook zo :-)

 
; ik ga hier processors gebruiken
(with-processors
    ; maak een paar processors
    ((sine (sine-processor))
     (delay (delay-processor))
     (m (stream-mixer))
     (mlt (stream-mult)))
  (with-audio-stream stream 0 1 ()  ; gebruik 1 audio output
    (dotimes (i 400)
      (write-audio stream
		   (<- m         ; output van m
		       :input-1 (<- sine :frequency 0.1)
		       :factor-1 0.2   ; specificeer vaste parameter
		       :input-2 (<- ^sine)  ; uitvoer van sine processor hierboven
		       :factor-2 0.0)))))
 

Ik gebruik

(<- ... )

als een macro die de juiste output van een processor selecteerd:
:output bij default, anders scrijf je

(<- :andere-output processor .... )

En definieren van een processor is ook erg versimpeld:

(defprocessor mult-processor
    ((output :stream))
    ((input :stream) (factor :scalar))
    ()
  (dotimes (i *num-frames*)
    (setf (aref output i) (* (aref input i) factor))))