README

TranScript SDK
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TranScript is a dynamically-typed object-oriented language that is designed with
ease of use, flexibility and efficiency in mind. Efforts have been made so that
extending programs written in Go with TranScript is very straightforward.

Features:

	- Support for functional, imperative, object-oriented approaches.
	- Good concurrency support.
	- Fast dynamic object system.
	- API makes it straightforward to extend Go programs with scripting 
	  capabilities.
	- Functions are first-class values with lexical scope.
	- Algol-derived syntax.
	- Dynamically typed.
	- Tail call optimisation.
	- Support for meta-weirdness with __callFailed__() etc.

Like most dynamic languages, TranScript is primarily influenced by Smalltalk and 
Lisp (in particular Scheme). TranScript is object-oriented. Everything in 
TranScript is an object. Objects are instances of classes. Classes describe
objects. Classes are themselves (immutable) objects.

Install
-------

	 go get github.com/bobappleyard/ts

Installs the TranScript SDK. You may need to be root to do this.

Components:

	- Framework for compiling and interpreting TranScript code (ts)
	- Simple parser framework (ts/parse)
	- Bytecode specification (ts/bytecode)
	- Extensions to the language (ts/ext...)

Use
---

Below is an example interpreter that uses all of the provided extensions.

	package main

	import  (
		"github.com/bobappleyard/ts"
		_ "github.com/bobappleyard/ts/ext"
	)

	func main() {
		i := ts.New()
		i.Repl()
	}

A more feature-rich interpreter is available from:

	http://www.github.com/bobappleyard/tsi

Read more
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Running godoc will give you a run-down of the functions, types etc defined by
the distribution.

Version History
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0.4 -- reflection API, properties, varargs
0.3 -- packages, inner classes, anonymous classes  
0.2 -- local variables, private & protected members  
0.1 -- basic model