Lisp Machine Flavors for LFE (2)

Work on an LFE Flavors implementation had progressed and there is now something to test here LFE Flavors.

LFE Flavors is not a direct copy of LM Flavors as this is practically impossible given the differences in the underlying machines, for example LFE doesn't have mutable data. Some of its features:

• It uses processes to implement instances. This of course makes it fit very well in to the LFE/Erlang way of building systems.

• Each flavor definition becomes a separate module containing its core properties. When a flavor is first instantiated then a new module is made combining all the component flavors. This allows the component flavors to be pre-compiled and loaded in any order.

• A selection of all the LM Flavors options have been implemented with some of most usable features like before and after daemons. More will be added when necessary.

Now we just need to test this and see if it useful both in its own right and as a tool to build other tools.

A link to the LM documentation and some other interesting links CADR lisp machine and Lisp machines

Robert

P.S. Defstruct is still calling me and I think it should be possible to make a nice implementation of defstruct which can handle both Erlang records and Elixir structs plus other combinations.