Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: Re: OK to post GlasForth related stuff?
From: gdighton@geocities.com (Garth Dighton)
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rraszews@hotmail.com (Lewis Raszewski) wrote in
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>M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:
>>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I've not been able to reply until now, so I thought I'd reply to
>> all in one.  Thanks to to everyone who said 'OK'. I'll be working
>> on the internals for a bit and the documentation, and will keep
>> you all posted.
>>
>> Adam Thornton <adam@fsf.net> wrote:
>>
>> > It's also nearly as cool as a Lisp interpreter for the
>> > Z-machine.
>>
>> I loved the scheme game.  Implementing it must have been fun.
>>
>> I looked at the Z-machine very hard before deciding on Glulx, but
>> what clinched it was the addressing space limitations on the Z.
>>
>> David Griffith wrote:
>> > If it can be smoothed out and a way discovered to allow Forth
>> > code to be called from Inform and vice versa, some
>> > interesting new IF programs may result.
>>
>> Sorry to say that interfacing Inform and GlasForth isn't likely
>> to happen ever.  GlasForth is written from scratch in assembler
>> and Forth.
>>
>
>Well, could you meet half-way? I mean, GlasForth surely produces glulx
>bytecode, so it should be possible to make it produce glulx assembly (if
>it doesn't already), and from there, it should equally be fairly easy to
>have it produce glulx assembly in the inform format (I thought about
>doing something like this when I was contemplating an inform optimizer;
>saomething that would take the TXD output of a compiled game, optimize
>the assembly, then spit out inform-syntax assembly which could be
>dropped back into the source)
>

GlasForth doesn't _produce_ Glulx bytecode -- it's an interpreter _written_
in Glulx bytecode - you type Forth commands at the prompt, and it
interprets them. It falls into the same category, more or less, as the LISP
interpreter on the Z machine.

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Garth Dighton
gdighton@geocities.com


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