CommonLarcenyDocumentation

This page contains how ChrisBurns proposes to document CommonLarceny

• Background

  • What is Common Larceny?
  • Why was it developed?
  • Who developed it?

• Understanding Common Larceny

  • Variant of Larceny (initially a derivative of Petit Larceny)
  • How does it currently implement the CLR object system?
    • generics/multimethods/reflection, etc.
  • What is it capable of?
  • What are its current limitations?
  • Runtime design
    • The op_reversed stuff is to avoid a case analysis on object type; instead you use method dispatch (this is like the visitor pattern). Instead of checking a tag for each n arguments, you go through n method invocations.

• Building

  • Windows (Microsoft .NET SDK)
  • Other (MonoNotes)

• Interacting

  • Interpreter vs. Compiler