pymen VS stack-overflow-import

Neat! Nicely done.

fwiw, I wrote a Lisp in Python whose sexprs ended up looking similar: https://github.com/shawwn/pymen

That’s the runtime for it, which is self hosted, so it supports that dot syntax but doesn’t actually use it in its own code. (If you add a new feature like dot syntax to a self hosted lisp, then you start using the feature, and later decide it was a bad idea, it becomes incredibly difficult to revert — So the compiler sticks to a minimal subset.

But it can run code almost exactly as you’ve written, minus the backslashes. It also has:

  (for x in (list 1 2 3 4)

Glad you asked. Like this: https://github.com/shawwn/pymen/blob/68b66dccc96910869ab370d...

  (=defun choose-bind-test ()

Seven years after the StackOverflow Importer [1], I thought it was time to build an updated version using ChatGPT.

[1]: https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import?tab=readme...

[1]: https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

> time series forecasting using this tool.

Interesting. IME even for toy problems it generally spits out code which fails to do what I requested some of the time or at all. Using this tool to solve a problem requires not only that I understand what it spits out but also that I understand how to actually solve the problem, so that I can iterate on the rubbish it spits out.

It doesn't seem frightening or particularly transformative; I'm not even convinced that using it could save more time than not. It's not doing anything radically different to https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import and the latter works better.

I welcome evil players attempting to use it: their evil plans will self-destruct in hilarious ways.

StackOverflow Importer

You can cut out the middleman with this python project.