The forum is up:
http://squirrel.sourceforge.net/forum/

irbrian: sorry but I had installed the forum around 1h after you gave me the idea. I think the one I''ve found is quite good. thx in any case.

brain21: no, squirrel cannot suspend the VM execution based on the numebr of instructions executed. Like lua uses coroutines, you can suspend the execution calling the function suspend().

all: if you have any other questions, use the brand new forum

ciao
Alberto


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The programming language Squirrel
http://squirrel.sourceforge.net

Thx PeterTarkus

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Squirrel is pretty nice I like what you have done, it compiled without any problems and works great (except that programming in the REPL was a bit awkward).

the REPL progamming style is there to avoid the user to deal with objects ownership. As far as the objects is in the stack you do not have to worry about who owns what(try to embed python and you''ll understand). Plus in this way the API maps almost 1:1 on the VM so most of the functions directly kick into VM code. That''s faster and avoids reduntant code.

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Maybe I will eventually help out and we can build a translator in the backend to translate Squirrel code to C++ or C and compile native modules to link into the VM

That would be great thx. I''d like to offer more tools for squirrel, is just that I really can''t find the time. Expecially because at the moment I''m focusing on making the core language polished and rock solid.

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Your code was pretty good (but I dare say, use more whitespace. It is nearly as terse as a Scheme program! :-)

Indeed my coding style is a bit compressed The main reason is that initially squirrel wasn''t ment to be released to the public, I was just experimenting. A collegue of mine convinced me to release it. I usually do not code like that in working environment only when I code for myself. I plan to do some reformatting.


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Yep, I know the thecnique, I used to be into asm development. The guy that integrated squirrel in my company''s engine implemented something similar to automatically bind C++ virtual interfaces to squirrel. However don''t want to add any asm code in the core lang, is way to difficult to maintain and is not really portable. Squirrel is already fast enough for my pouposes. Maybe an external library like my collegue did, would be a better solution.

ciao
Alberto

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The programming language Squirrel
http://squirrel.sourceforge.net