https://github.com/macournoyer/tinyrb

A tiny subset of Ruby with a Lua'esc VM
https://github.com/macournoyer/tinyrb

bytecode compiler language parser vm

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A tiny subset of Ruby with a Lua'esc VM

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/macournoyer/tinyrb
• Owner: macournoyer
• Created: 2008-07-31T04:00:38.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-01-31T21:16:23.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-07T11:42:40.131Z (7 days ago)
• Topics: bytecode, compiler, language, parser, vm
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://code.macournoyer.com/tinyrb/
• Size: 4.14 MB
• Stars: 467
• Watchers: 20
• Forks: 42
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rdoc

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README

        
= tinyrb

A tiny subset of Ruby with a Lua'esc VM.

Everything in TinyRb should run in the big Ruby.

(except bugs and things that don't comply to the principle of least surprise.)

But not everything in the big Ruby should run in tinyrb.

This is a work in progress and not usable for "real things" yet.

See TODO for a couple of those things that need to be done.

http://github.com/macournoyer/tinyrb

#tinyrb on freenode

== Install

  make

  make test # optional

  ./tinyrb -h

== What WON'T be in tinyrb (tiny patches accepted)

* for

* redo, retry

* if ... do, while ... do, etc

* alias keyword (see alias_method)

* undef keyword (see undefine_method)

* throw, catch

* Alternate string delimiters (%q, %Q, etc.)

* heredoc strings

* Parallel assignment (a, b = 1, 2)

* :: as . (Class::new)

* Character code literal (?c)

* protected, private, public (yes everything is public, mind you)

* ObjectSpace

* $SAFE (but Sandbox mode at the VM level)

* ... others to come for sure.

== Credits

Inspired by:

* lua,     http://www.lua.org

* tinypy,  http://tinypy.org

* potion,  http://github.com/why/potion

kvec.h and khash.h (c) 2008, by Attractive Chaos 

GC Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers

PCRE Copyright (c) 1997-2008 University of Cambridge released under BSD license

tinyrb is Copyright (c) Marc-Andre Cournoyer  and

released under Ruby license