Runt

Overview

runt is a stack-based glue language used with monolith. Similar to Forth, Runt implements a global stack and dictionary. User-defined procedures are technically possible, but are virtually unused in the context of Monolith.

Runt is used on top of the graforge C API to create a stack-based audio language very similar to sporth, the author's project before Monolith.

Both Graforge and Monolith add hundreds of words to Runt's dictionary. Most of these are unit-generators, or ugens, which are graforge nodes wrapped inside of a Runt word defined in C.

In practice, runt code is usually evaluated from inside of a scheme REPL.

Runt In Scheme

Runt is typically run from inside scheme.

At startup, the Runt dictionary must be populated with words. This is done with the command monolith:runt-loader.

(monolith:runt-loader)

From there, runt code can be evaluated with monolith:runt-eval.

(monolith:runt-eval "'hi' say")

If monolith.scm is loaded (it is by default when used in the REPL), monolith:runt-eval is abbreviated as rvl.

(rvl "1 2 + 3 * p")