Per the straw poll in #908, as an alternative to #1147.
Now you must use `True`, `False`, and `None`, as in Python. Or just assign `true` to `True`, etc.; the old synonyms aren't reserved words anymore.
In Python 2.x (range 10) is mapped to xrange(10) in Python
terms. However, xrange doesn't support slicing, which caused tests to
fail. By forxing xrange into list, we have slicing available.
Give `require` the same features as `import`
You can now do (require foo), (require [foo [a b c]]), (require [foo [*]]), and (require [foo :as bar]). The first and last forms get you macros named foo.a, foo.b, etc. or bar.a, bar.b, etc., respectively. The second form only gets the macros in the list.
Implements #1118 and perhaps partly addresses #277.
N.B. The new meaning of (require foo) will cause all existing code that uses macros to break. Simply replace these forms with (require [foo [*]]) to get your code working again.
There's a bit of a hack involved in the forms (require foo) or (require [foo :as bar]). When you call (foo.a ...) or (bar.a ...), Hy doesn't actually look inside modules. Instead, these (require ...) forms give the macros names that have periods in them, which happens to work fine with the way Hy finds and interprets macro calls.
* Make `require` syntax stricter and add tests
* Update documentation for `require`
* Documentation wording improvements
* Allow :as in `require` name lists
This allows them to be used with numeric types that aren't built in, such as NumPy arrays. Because Python uses duck typing, there's generally no way to know in advance whether a given value will accept a given operator. Of course, things like `(inc "hello")` will still raise a `TypeError`, because so does `(+ "hello" 1)`.
This allows macros to take a keyword dict containing useful things by
defining a keyword argument. This allows us to pass in new objects
which might be handy to have in macros.
This changeset refactors module_name to become `compiler`, so that we
can pass the compiler itself into the macros as `opts['compiler']`.
This allows the macro to both get the macro name
(`compiler.module_name`), as well as use the compiler to build AST.
In the future, this will enable us to create "super-macros" which return
AST, not HyAST, in order to manually create insane things from userland.
For userland macros (not `defmacro`) the core.language `macroexpand`
will go ahead and make a new compiler for you.
This makes it possible to use strings as the macro name argument to
defreader, which in turn makes it possible to define reader macros with
names that would otherwise result in parse errors.
Such as `#.`.
This fixes#918.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
The `if` form now supports elif clauses.
It works like `cond` but without the implicit `do`.
The old `if` is now `if*`
variadic lif now supports "ellif" clauses.
Update if-no-waste compiler to use `if*` properly.
(Sometimes one character is all it takes.)
document if
reword truthiness
Comparison operators such as =, !=, <, >, <=, >= should support a
one-arity version too, and return true in those cases (except for !=,
which returns false).
This closes#949.
Reported-by: Matthew Egan Odendahl
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
This changes with syntax from (with [[x (expr)] (expr)] ...) to (with
[x (expr) (expr)] ...). Should have no ill side effects apart from the
syntax change.
Closes#852.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
This changes let to use a flat list of symbol-value pairs instead of a
vector of vectors. One side effect is that (let [[a 1] z]) is not
expressible now, and one will explicitly need to set a nil value for z,
such as: (let [a 1 z nil]).
Closes#713.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
apply now mangles strings and keywords according to the Hy mangling
rules (by using the same function, now imported from
hy.lex.parser). With this change, if the dict passed to apply has
keywords, strings or quoted symbols, they'll get mangled, to turn them
into proper keys.
This only works for the cases where the keys are directly in the apply
params. A previously deffed dict, or key through a variable will not be
mangled.
This closes#219.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
To make it easier to write --init-- functions, defclass will now check
any (setv) expressions (and its property list), to find any --init--
declarations, and append a nil to the end.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
For easier macro writing purposes, allow an empty (cond), that simply
returns nil. Closes#904.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
To mirror the behaviour of (setv), allow an empty (del) too: one that
shall return nil. Closes#905.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
To allow classes to have methods that match built-in names, yet, still
disallow them outside of defclass, keep an internal state whether
builtins are allowed in the current context.
By default, this is false. But defclass will set it to True when it
compiles its body, and set it back to the previous value when it's done
with that. We need to set back to the previous value to allow nested
defclasses to work properly.
This closes#783.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Strip the \ufdd0 prefix from the keyword argument before turning it into
a string: the same representation the user entered looks better, and is
printable too, thus Python2 doesn't choke on it.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Some valid-looking list comprehensions, such as (genexpr x []) can crash
Python 2.7. The AST we generate from these cannot be expressed in
Python, but were valid in Hy.
Added two guards to guard against this, so we raise an error instead of
crashing Python.
Closes#572, #591 and #634.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Postfixing functions with a bang, like set!, get!, etc are relatively
common. However, those names are not valid in python, so in the name of
python interoperability, lets mangle them to set_bang and get_bang,
respectively.
Closes#536.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
When trying to setv a callable, raise an error instead of showing the
user an incredibly ugly backtrace. Closes#532.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
In case for doesn't get a body, raise the appropriate, descriptive error
instead of an IndexOutOfBounds one. Also updated the failing test case.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
defclass now has a new syntax:
(defclass Name [BaseList]
[property value
property value] ;; optional
(defn method [self]
self.property))
Anything after the optional property list (which will be translated to a
setv within the class context) will be added to the class body. This
allows one to have side effects and complex expressions within the class
definition.
As a side effect, defining methods is much more friendly now!
Closes#850.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
xor with more than two input parameters is not well defined and people
have different expectations on how it should behave. Avoid confusion by
sticking with two parameters only.
Added xor to complement and, or, not operators. Standard python
falsey/truthy semantics are followed. This implementation works for
two or more parameters.
