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   1 * Ecmalisp
   2
   3   Ecmalisp is a Lisp-to-Javascript compiler, which is bootstrapped
   4   from Common Lisp and executed from the browser.
   5
   6   You can try a demo [[http://davazp.net/ecmalisp/ecmalisp.html][here]].
   7
   8   It is just an experiment, of course. But it supports partially most
   9   common special operators, functions and macros. In particular:
  10
  11   - Multiple values
  12   - Explicit control flow ([[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_tagbod.htm][tagbody]] and [[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_go.htm][go]])
  13   - Static and dynamic non local exist ([[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_catch.htm][catch]], [[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_throw.htm][throw]]; [[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_block.htm][block]], [[http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_ret_fr.htm][return-from]]).
  14   - Lexical and special variables. However, declare expressions are
  15     missing, but you can /proclaim/ special variables.
  16   - Optional and keyword arguments
  17   - SETF places
  18   - Packages
  19
  20   The compiler is very verbose, some simple optimizations or
  21   /minification/ could help to deal with it.
  22
  23   Most of the above features are incomplete. It is not so bad because
  24   so the compiler is not too heavy, but it would be great if we were
  25   just enough compliant to include a [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/iter/loop/mit/0.html][loop implementation]], a format
  26   implementation, or even [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/oop/0.html][CLOS]] or non-CLOS OOP.
  27
  28   /Feel free to hack it yourself/