On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:00, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:43 PM, B Smith-Mannschott wrote: >> Horrible hack, maybe, but it got me thinking. What you seem to be >> doing is moving between "code" and "literal" mode by quoting with #. >> This is a little like traditional quasi-quote... >> >> And that got me thinking about Scribble [1] again. In this >> context I think of scribble as being sort of an inverse of normal >> scheme syntax. In the end, the scribble reader produces the same >> kind of data structures as the normal scheme reader, but the >> emphasis is moved from code to textual content. Source is content >> by default, but you can escape into logic. > > This is kind of a good summary of the reader's intended use, beyond > our documentation system: it's fitting for any kind of code that deals > with a lot of textual content -- and having a kind of cheap DSLs for > interacting with other tools by generating source is exactly one of > the things that you can do with it. But getting that from the > scribble documentation will be a little hard -- I wrote a paper on > just the implementation and use cases of the reader that will be much > more fitting in this context, with some examples of such uses: > http://barzilay.org/misc/scribble-reader.pdf
Thanks very much for the link. I'm enjoying the paper. When I've addressed my immediate needs (with stringtemplate), I hope to return to it again in more depth. I have this notion, that an alternate reader for Clojure in the style of Scribble combined with core concepts of stringtemplate could make a convenient and yet lispy templating system for producing non-lisp code and other textual output. // Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
