[z-machine] Small contribution to the ZMachine specs

Ben Collins-Sussman sussman at red-bean.com
Sun Mar 26 20:59:10 BST 2006


On 3/26/06, Chris Pickett <chris.pickett at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Have you looked at frotz?  I suppose it can be considered as a kind of
> reference implementation.  It sounds like you're trying a clean-room
> approach though, so maybe you don't want to do that...
>

Yeah, we're "spiritually" trying to do a clean-room implementation --
not for any legal reasons.  Our hope is that one would be able to
write a z-machine by using nothing but the spec.  I suppose we can
always look at frotz, malyon.el, or any number of other
implementations.  We'd still like to see the spec clarified, though. 
:-)



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