MOONLISP

http://leafo.net/moonlisp

MoonLisp is a Lisp variant that compiles directly to Lua code.

It is written in MoonScript and depends on the MoonScript runtime to generate Lua code.

In addition to Lisp syntax, and some Lisp concepts, MoonLisp provides a way to write macros for Lua using S-Expressions.

Usage

Compiling:

$ bin/lisp.moon lisp_code.cl > lua_code.lua

Compile and execute with the -r flag:

$ bin/lisp.moon -r hello.cl

Example

Here is an example of run length compression as described in Ansi Common Lisp p.37

(defun compress (x)
  (if (consp x)
	(compr (car x) 1 (cdr x))
	x))

(defun n_elts (el n)
  (if (> n 1)
	(list n el)
	el))

(defun compr (el n lst)
  (if (null lst)
	(list (n_elts el n))
	(let ((next (car lst)))
	  (if (eql next el)
		(compr el (+ n 1) (cdr lst))
		(cons (n_elts el n)
			  (compr next 1 (cdr lst)))))))

(setf input '(1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1))
(p (compress input))

And here is the (ugly) code generated:

require("lisp.lib");
(function()
  compress = function(x)
	return (function()
	  if consp(x) then
		return compr(x[1], 1, x[2])
	  else
		return x
	  end
	end)()
  end
  return compress
end)();
(function()
  n_elts = function(el, n)
	return (function()
	  if (n > 1) then
		return {
		  n,
		  {
			el,
			nil
		  }
		}
	  else
		return el
	  end
	end)()
  end
  return n_elts
end)();
(function()
  compr = function(el, n, lst)
	return (function()
	  if null(lst) then
		return {
		  n_elts(el, n),
		  nil
		}
	  else
		return (function()
		  local next = lst[1]
		  return (function()
			if next == el then
			  return compr(el, (n + 1), lst[2])
			else
			  return {
				n_elts(el, n),
				compr(next, 1, lst[2])
			  }
			end
		  end)()
		end)()
	  end
	end)()
  end
  return compr
end)();
(function()
  input = {
	1,
	{
	  1,
	  {
		1,
		{
		  0,
		  {
			1,
			{
			  0,
			  {
				0,
				{
				  0,
				  {
					0,
					{
					  1,
					  nil
					}
				  }
				}
			  }
			}
		  }
		}
	  }
	}
  }
  return input
end)()
p(compress(input))

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