Leon spot on, maybe ill get to implement such a thing :)
On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 2:44:04 AM UTC+3, ronen wrote: > > Gary your last comment hits what I look for exactly: > > "If you are looking for an encoding of clojure's syntax extensions into > pure edn reader tags (as my crystall ball tells me you might be), I haven't > encountered such a thing yet, even though it's conceivable." > > My use case is to pass functions in configuration files (thus effecting > behavior), sending functions over the wire or storing them is another use > case > > Its not enough to include the body, but also include required namespaces, > params it expects etc.. > > Thanks > > On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 8:14:41 PM UTC+3, Gary Verhaegen wrote: >> >> Not very clear to me either, but, in the spirit of reducing the field of >> possible understandings of the question: are you aware of eval? If so, can >> you reframe your question around it, i.e. what is it missing for your >> use-case or haw it's not a good fit? (If you are not yet aware of eval, >> know that it is just as bad as read security-wise.) >> >> Or perhaps you already have a clear idea of what you would want to do >> with the data structures in your edn file, and you're actually asking about >> how to register your custom literal reader with the edn reader? >> >> On Thursday, 28 May 2015, Herwig Hochleitner <hhochl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 2015-05-27 18:14 GMT+02:00 ronen <nark...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Ok ill expand the question a bit hoping to make it clearer :) >>>> >>> >>> Still not clear to me, but I'll try to expand a bit in the hope of >>> showing what is unclear. >>> >>> Clojure EDN has support for literal tags >>>> <https://github.com/edn-format/edn#inst-rfc-3339-format> and the >>>> ability of extending it with custom ones (records for example >>>> https://github.com/miner/tagged). >>>> >>> >>> Right, so what additional functionality are you looking for then? >>> Clojure is basically EDN + a bit of additional syntax, like anonymous fns >>> #(), vars #', deref @, syntax-quote ` ~ ~@, discarded expressions #_, read >>> eval #= and recently read cond #? I suppose you're not talking about that >>> additional syntax, because then it wouldn't be EDN anymore. >>> >>> I have a use case for storing functions in EDN and Iv found this >>>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FDatomic%2Fday-of-datomic%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Fresources%2Fday-of-datomic%2Fclojure-data-functions.edn&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHi_41fzdbV7ygT3-_g3oI4ZeJVJw>, >>>> >>>> which seems to be an EDN form containing serialized Clojure functions for >>>> Datomic (which is closed source so I can't use its reader). >>>> >>> >>> As I implied above, Clojure code not utilizing any of the extra syntax >>> is perfectly readable by any EDN implementation. As far as datomic #db/fn >>> is concerned: If you pass clojure code in a string, I'm pretty sure it uses >>> clojure.core/read to read it. If you pass forms, as in the example you >>> posted, I guess it just uses those forms as they were and they will already >>> have been preprocessed by the reader before being passed to the reader >>> function of #db/fn, so again, clojure.core/read (normally). >>> >>> My question is if there is any open source implementation, I can't seem >>>> to find one. >>>> >>> >>> There are many readers capable of reading EDN (clojure.tools.reader, >>> edn-java, haskell's edn, clojure.core/read, cljs reader, ...) some of those >>> will also be able to read the extensions that make clojure syntax. >>> >>> If you are looking for an encoding of clojure's syntax extensions into >>> pure edn reader tags (as my crystall ball tells me you might be), I haven't >>> encountered such a thing yet, even though it's conceivable. >>> >>> kind regards >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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