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Virtue SKILL and Python Library

Curtisma
Curtisma over 4 years ago

All:

I put together a SKILL++ library, Virtue, which provides the following features.
Please let me know if you have any feedback on it.

  • A standard library of functions for common tasks
  • A test framework modeled after pytest
  • A TOML config file reader and writer
  • A package import system that allows the library to define just a single top-level import table symbol that allows each package to be imported locally.

It's available at:
https://github.com/cascode-labs/virtue

-Curtis

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago in reply to AurelBuche +1
    AurelBuche said: package = (let nil (defun a nil nil) (defun b nil nil) (theEnvironment) ) One downside of this approach is it means that everything in the lexical scope then becomes visible via the…
  • Curtisma
    Curtisma over 4 years ago in reply to AurelBuche +1
    Het Aurel: Thanks for the feedback! Packages Thanks for the good suggestion! This will be particularly helpful for the test framework where I would definitely prefer not to have to add each function…
  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago in reply to Curtisma +1
    I've not seen that, and I just experimented with using the code above, even putting it inside a function so that the effects of lazy compilation might show up, and putting additional code beyond the macro…
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  • Curtisma
    Curtisma over 3 years ago

    All:
    I released a new version, v0.4, of Virtue recently.

    Documentation:https://www.cascode-labs.org/virtue

    Release Notes: https://www.cascode-labs.org/virtue/overview/release_notes.html

    -Curtis

    Andrew Beckett, AurelBuche

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  • Curtisma
    Curtisma over 3 years ago

    All:
    I released a new version, v0.4, of Virtue recently.

    Documentation:https://www.cascode-labs.org/virtue

    Release Notes: https://www.cascode-labs.org/virtue/overview/release_notes.html

    -Curtis

    Andrew Beckett, AurelBuche

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