Inline Evaluation Adventure

[todsacerdoti]

https://rigsomelight.com/2025/03/12/inline-eval-adventure.html

[benjamin314]

Absolutely agree the feeling of this is that the source code is alive. It's like riding a bike, you cannot explain it in words what it is.

I tried to convey the idea in a video here: https://youtu.be/3AqEDzAT4n8?si=aI0ZjWqXVnNDdJ4J

[brucehauman → benjamin314]

Let’s throw this relevant link of yours in here as well: https://faster-than-light-memes.xyz/conversation-1.html

[brucehauman]

Author here: I'm curious if anyone took the time to complete the text adventure?

[deathanatos → brucehauman]

I got a bit stuck.

(I got the 5 items. Somehow lost :key-code. I think I inadvertently duplicated :close-paren and :unlock-function, though I have no idea how.

In :utility-room, the "bookcas " is missing an e.

When the mouse is over one of those inline-eval boxes, "scroll up" works, "scroll down" does not.

edit: oh, I was trying to play the whole game before the rest of the article too … so that was probably harder than it needed to be ^_^

edit: (pop) seems to be what screws up my inventory, dropping multiple items from the stack, but if :a :b are dropped, they end up as like :b :b ?

edit: I think I beat it? I got to exit-to-freedom, which I'm assuming is the end.

[brucehauman → deathanatos]

I probably made the puzzle harder than it needed to be...

I fixed the sp error in the utility room.

[deathanatos → brucehauman]

I think I beat it, assuming reaching exit-to-freedom is the win condition.

I think it's (pop) that screws up my inventory? Seems like it pops two things, and one becomes the other.

[brucehauman → deathanatos]

Well I'll need to fix that!

edit: it's fixed, you might need a shift-reload to get the new code.

[brucehauman → deathanatos]

You beat it. Even on hard mode where the pop function wasn't working.

[Cogito → brucehauman]

Completed it. Was really fun, thank you!

I wasn't sure how to chain function calls so had to look that up to implement movei, but apart from that was fairly straightforward (it's (do (<func1>) (<func2>) ...)).

My UI was pretty simple and ended up being

    (defn looki [] (display-html (look-html (look))))
    (defn movei [dir] (do (move dir) (looki)))
    (looki)
    (movei :south)
    (movei :east)
    (movei :north)
    (movei :south)
    (movei :west)
    (unlock-function :spoiler)
    (stack)
    (push :picture)
    (push :spoilers)
    (peek)
    (pop)
    (reset)

[brucehauman → Cogito]

Awesome!

[jiriro]

Is it possible to ^r on iphone?

[zogilvie → jiriro]

I believe you may be able to do it with a 3rd party keyboard app. I was able to use one for my Android phone, just unsure what's available for iOS.