Move stack operations to a layer of their own.
It was some short-term pain to take out the syntax sugar from it, but we
need access to this layer from braces, which can't depend on sugar since
it's part of sugar. Just simpler to keep one clear line and not have to
build sometimes with some sugar but not others.
This undoes 5672 in favor of a new plan:
Layers 000 - 099 are for running without syntax sugar. We use them for
building syntax-sugar passes.
Layers 100 and up are for running with all syntax sugar.
The layers are arranged in approximate order so more phases rely on earlier
layers than later ones.
I plan to not use intermediate syntax sugar (just sigils without calls,
or sigils and calls without braces) anywhere except in the specific passes
implementing them.
Right now we always build the library before any apps.
Apps are where our syntax sugar translators (sigils, calls, braces) live.
So we can't use sugar in the standard library.
New idea: move all code for SubX phases into the top-level.
Perhaps we should also just build a single file rather than pipeline stages.
But for now we'll build each phase by building up to some specific layer.
This will simplify test_apps and move lots of one-off logic to a more standard
form in test_layers.
I'm also going to reorg existing layers so that we introduce each phase
at a point where it mostly only gets the helpers it needs.
This commit itself is just cleaning up some common strings. Using explicit
names for them streamlines binaries a bit.
The core library is a mess right now, because it can't use syntax sugar.
I need some way to tier the library so that later layers can use syntax
sugar, but without adding cognitive load.
A shell pipeline is pretty, but maybe I need to drop it. Just add functions
to layers. Get all of the translator out of the apps/ sub-directory.
Snapshot of mulisp before we put it on the back-burner. It's going to take
too long, and we're better off building out the lower layers that make
it more convenient to create.
Kartik Agaram