partcl is still failing a few tests, but things are looking up. Fixed a bug that was bringing down our tcl test suite numbers, added regression tests to tcl to track them. Also did some expr cleanup (octal, ~ operator, more tests.)
In the past few days, added a build tool that lets us declare inline'd tcl builtins (originally, everything was interpreted. Now several commands have a version that generates PIR), rather than hand rolling them. this lets you declare the argument types (and whether they are optional, default values, etc.) and have them compiled automatically, and just define the small bit of PIR code that you need to process the arguments. It also automatically generates errors for bad calls, etc.
By moving all this setup code into the build script, we should lower the bar for implementing the builtins. as of this writing, six builtins have been converted to the new template style. Here's a sample:
{
command => 'join',
args =>
[
{
name => 'list',
type => 'list',
},
{
name => 'joinString',
type => 'string',
optional => 1,
default => " ",
}
],
code => <<'END_PIR',
$S{register_joinString} = $P{register_joinString}
$S{register_num} = join $S{register_joinString}, $P{register_list}
$P{register_num} = new .TclString
$P{register_num} = $S{register_num}
END_PIR
}