Re: [Chicken-users] No... but it is... interesting...

[Markus Klotzbuecher]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:15:15AM -0500, Felix wrote:
> 
> This announces the availability of "SPOCK", a Scheme->JavaScript
> compiler and runtime system. It can statically compile
> really-nearly-mostly R5RS-Scheme to JS or can be used to dynamically
> generate code from s-expressions (say, in a web-server or CGI
> application). Tail-calls and first-class continuations are fully
> supported.
> 
> It is slow, buggy, barely tested and stresses JavaScript engines in
> unexpected ways. It doesn't run on IE, of course (this will be
> addressed, someday). Documentation is not complete yet.
> 
> If your browser supports <canvas> tags, you can try:
> 
>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/threads.html
> 
>   This application draws some graphics in call/cc-based coroutines,
>   the source to this is here:
> 
>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/threads.scm
> 
> The test-suite can be run at:
> 
>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/test.html
> 
>   Note that running this this takes a while and might trigger a
>   browser warning. Just continue executing it until it either
>   errors out or runs to completion.
> 
> Initial documentation can be found here:
> 
>   http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/spock

Very nice! Could this be used to interact with Qt QML and Quick?

Best regards
Markus