spec: promises — delay/force/delay-force/make-promise/promise?

25 tests pass on OCaml (4357 total) and JS. Promise represented as
mutable dict {:_promise true :forced :thunk :value}; delay-force
adds :_iterative for chain-following semantics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-05-01 08:21:45 +00:00
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commit e44cb89ab4
5 changed files with 306 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -2037,8 +2037,10 @@
nil))))
(define
values
(fn (&rest vs) (if (= (len vs) 1) (first vs) {:_values true :_list vs})))
sf-delay
(fn
(args env)
(let ((thunk (make-lambda (list) (first args) env))) {:forced false :value nil :thunk thunk :_promise true})))
;; ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
;; Part 11: Entry Points
@@ -2047,6 +2049,42 @@
;; eval-expr / trampoline: top-level bindings that override the
;; forward declarations from Part 5.
;; ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
(define
sf-delay-force
(fn
(args env)
(let ((thunk (make-lambda (list) (first args) env))) {:_iterative true :forced false :value nil :thunk thunk :_promise true})))
(define promise? (fn (v) (and (dict? v) (get v :_promise false))))
(define make-promise (fn (v) {:forced true :value v :_promise true}))
(define
force
(fn
(p)
(if
(not (promise? p))
p
(if
(get p :forced false)
(get p :value nil)
(let
((result (apply (get p :thunk nil) (list))))
(let
((final (if (and (get p :_iterative false) (promise? result)) (force result) result)))
(dict-set! p :forced true)
(dict-set! p :value final)
final))))))
(register-special-form! "delay" sf-delay)
(register-special-form! "delay-force" sf-delay-force)
(define
values
(fn (&rest vs) (if (= (len vs) 1) (first vs) {:_values true :_list vs})))
(register-special-form! "define-type" sf-define-type)
(define