(day-after jam, added Usage and Makefile to branch "master")

Usage

make

This runs run.bash which runs a single 0D Leaf component echo.py and prints its output queue at the command-line.

Test.py invokes hello.py and feeds it a trigger message (True).

Then test.py invokes world.py and feeds it the above output.

World.py is almost like hello.py except that hello.py does not echo its input whereas world.py does echo its input. World.py emits 2 outputs for each input it receives.

Both components - hello.py and world.py send outputs to their respective output queues.

The final result is:

  1. hello.py outputs ['hello'] on output port 'stdout'
  2. world.py inputs 'hello' on its input port, then outputs ['hello', 'world'] on its output port 'stdout'.

Test.py invokes the two components and sends them messages in sequence. This process can be generalized to what I call a Container component, but, I didn't get there before the jam ended.

Note that the .outputs () method returns a dictionary of stacks (LIFO) of values for each port. This was a conscious decision. LIFOs, Alists are what original McCarthy FP-style code used. Sector Lisp continues the tradition of using LIFOs. I think that this is one of the secret ingredients for the anti-bloatwareness of Sector Lisp. No RAM, therefore, no heaps, therefore, no mutation, therefore, simplified data access via push/pop/lambda-binding. Lambda-binding and LIFO call-stacks fit together to make small code and no-fuss structure-sharing.

Sequencing in this paradigm is explicit and caused by the order of the sends. Sequencing in most textual programming languages is implicit and is controlled by the syntax of the language (lines of code are ordered sequences).

End of Jam

The jam ended before test.py worked correctly, but, today - 1 day after the jam - test.py is working.

Post Jam

Next, would be to make a Container (Composite) component - helloworld.py that contained two components that can be chained together. Chaining is not necessary in this paradigm and I keep it only to make the examples look more familiar.

After that would come a rearrangement of helloworld.py that would contain one hello.py and two world.pys, resulting in "['hello', 'world', 'hello', 'world']"