[plt-scheme] Re: Porting DrScheme/MzScheme to Adobe Flex

Thanks. Writing games is the most exciting way to activate student brains.

Aren't you going to write real scheme compiler ? At least with call/cc.
Some time ago I've tried to implement r5rs->javascript compiler, but
lack of theory knowledges forced me to pause project and start studying 
some theory.
  AFAIK "call/cc" is incredibly useful for asynchronous communication 
with web server via XMLHTTPRequest, so i decided not to ignore it in my 
compiler.

Will appreciate if you can give me any hints here.

--
Bohdan

David Van Horn wrote:
<snip>
> It is still too early to release anything, but I have a "compliler" that 
> translates representative Advanced Student programs into JavaScript.  My 
> goal was to get demos of games written with the World teachpack on the 
> web---Malcom X style---by any means necessary.  JavaScript and Advanced 
> Student are close enough that a simple transliteration will do (for 
> correct programs that can get by on the JS impoverished numbers).  So 
> the compiler is more of a pretty printer, with a little bit of World 
> teachpack support hacked together in JavaScript.
> 
> You can see an example here, which demos a game from the recent release 
> of HtDW:
> 
>    http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dvanhorn/tmp/version9/
>
> I'd like to turn this into a real AS to JS compiler that could be used 
> as a tool within DrScheme, but that will take work.  It needs support 
> for more complicated control flow (to handle check-expect).  And there 
> are numerous distinctions between JS and Scheme semantics that have to 
> be worked around.  Numbers.  Etc.
> 
> This is also not a priority of mine (I have a moral imperative at the 
> moment), but I think it's a good project.  What I'd really like to do is 
> give it to an ambitious student to develop.
> 
> David
> 
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