[parenscript-devel] Lexical scoping with LAMBDA

[Vladimir Sedach]

Actually, I added runnable tests (via cl-javascript) earlier this
year. There's just not very many test cases.

The test cases themselves are in t/eval-tests.lisp

Vladimir

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Red Daly <reddaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bugs are a major theme on this list.  As far as I know, Parenscript lacks
> unit tests that run the compiled Javascript code. Is that still correct?
>  Perhaps it is time to introduce this feature?  There are a few options
> here:
> - cl-javascript is a pure lisp implementation of ECMAScript, and it actually
> works for most normal language cases
> - cl-spidermonkey uses the FFI to interact with Mozilla's JS engine
> - v8, either through the FFI or a simple command line
> This should allow the project to test much more rigorously than the current
> kinda kludgy test framework.
> As a reference, I currently do this in
> PSOS: https://github.com/gonzojive/paren-psos/blob/master/test/test-package.lisp
> - Red
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:48 PM, <sblist at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> It appears as though there might be a gap in the lexical scoping
>> implementation in the compiler:
>>
>> (ps (lambda (x)
>>      (let ((x 1))
>>        (foo x))
>>      (incf x)))
>> =>
>> "function (x) {
>>    var x = 1;
>>    foo(x);
>>    return ++x;
>> };"
>>
>> vs.
>>
>> (ps (let ((x 10))
>>      (let ((x 1))
>>        (foo x))
>>      (incf x)))
>>
>> "var x = 10;
>> var x33 = 1;
>> foo(x33);
>> ++x;"
>>
>> Although function parameters have their own lexical bindings,
>> the environment still needs to be informed of those bindings
>> so that LET forms in the function body can rename any conflicts.
>>
>>        Scott
>>
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