Hylas is a statically-typed, wide-spectrum, JIT-compiled dialect of Lisp that combines the performance and control of low-level languages with the advanced metaprogramming features of languages like Lisp.
(function fib ((n i64)) i64
(if (< n 2)
n
(+ (fib (- n 1))
(fib (- n 2)))))(foreign C printf (pointer i8) ... i32)
(printf "Hello, world! This is a double, in scientific notation: %e" 3.141592)(link "libSDL.so")
(foreign C SDL_Init i64 void)
(foreign C SDL_Delay i64 void)
(foreign C SDL_Quit void)
(type SDL_Color
(structure
(r byte)
(g byte)
(b byte)
(unused byte)))Documentation on the language is available as a series of Markdown files in the docs folder, and can be built using Make and Pandoc:
$ make bookThis will generate the HTML files in the docs/book/html folder. Use make clean to delete them.
Documentation on the compiler can be generated running make doc.
Copyright (C) 2012 Fernando Borretti
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