[VB6/VBA] Lambda Syntax - No script control or cheats!

[sancarn]

Wow, where did this come from :-)) Probably from the wonderful world of VBA 7 where cross-pollination with modern languages and new ideas is still strong!

Over the past year I've been simultaneously working on a "VBA-Like" to "VBA" transpiler with the intention of making something akin to BabelJS but for VBA. Was also hoping that might be able to compile to VB6 too and thus simultaneously "elevate" the version of VB6. Anyhow that experience and some help from a friend, allowed me to write a first version (which evaluated the tree at runtime...). It really all developed from there, with 2nd and 3rd versions implementing more operations. In an attempt to try to improve performance TarVK took it and added the compiler and evaluator here

Btw, in the ancient VB6 world we do have x86 machine code generated lambdas (kind of) but unfortunately there is no x64 implementation currently.

Wow! Wish I had known that before I made this library lol... I had initially hoped to do more in machine code, but at the time didn't have the knowledge or compiler tooling to make that work...

I might try to implement C emitting backend (OTCC subset) for your lambda syntax based on your current frontend

This would be cool, an alternative approach would be to re-implement the evaluator in compiled C for both x86 and x64. At least I believe this should provide the fastest runtime. Although it may be less fun for you! :P Anyhow any help you can provide would be much appreciated of course