ShenScript

An implementation of the Shen Language by Mark Tarver for JavaScript. Built for modern browsers and recent versions of Node, requiring the latest features of the ECMAScript standard.

Introduction

• Motivation
• Prior Art
  • shen-js
  • shen-cl
• Encoding of Semantics
  • Data Types
  • Special Forms
  • Shen Booleans vs JavaScript Booleans
  • Equality
  • Partial Function Application
  • Tail-Call Optimization
• Generation of Syntax
  • Generating JavaScript
  • Hoisting Globals and Idle Symbols
  • Fabrications
  • Escaping Special Variable Names
  • Dynamic Type-Checking
  • Code Inlining and Optimisation
  • Pervasive Asynchronocity
• Future Design Options
  • Polychronous Functions
  • KLambda-Expression Interpreter
  • Expression Type Tracking
• Historical and Abandoned Design
  • String Concatenation
  • Using Fabrications for Statement-oriented Syntax

Walkthrough and API Docs

• Building an Environment
• The Kernel Sandwich
  • The Backend
  • The Kernel
  • The Frontend
• Interop from JavaScript to Shen
  • Exported Functions
• Interop from Shen to JavaScript
  • Raw Operators
  • Typed Operators
  • Typed Standard Functions
  • JSON Functions
  • Object Construction, Member Access
  • Recognisor Functions
  • Global Classes, Objects and Values
  • Web-specific Interop
  • Node-specific Interop
• Accessing ShenScript Internals from JavaScript
  • Data
  • Classes
  • Functions
• Accessing ShenScript Internals from Shen
  • Functions
  • AST Construction Functions
  • AST Evaluation Functions

Appendix

• Index