On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:47:41 +0200, Antti Koivunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any technical reasons to be tied to a specific syntax (apart > from optimization issues)? AIU, if the semantics are clear, it should be > possible to define the necessary abstractions to allow the use of > different syntaxes. IMO, one obvious implementation would BSF, as it's > already included in the Cocoon distribution and would provide "of the > shelf" support for JavaScript (Rhino) and Python (Jython), among others. > > It makes sense to limit the flexibility to some extent, but I don't see > the choice of syntax as a major issue, as long as the context objects > and interactions are well defined, and everything's properly documented. > IMO, it would be a advantage to support popular scripting languages. The key technical issue is a language that support continuations. None of the languages above supports it. To read more about what continuations are and how they can help in building Web applications check-out the following papers: http://youpou.lip6.fr/queinnec/Papers/webcont.ps.gz and http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/Publications/esop2001-gkvf.ps.gz In case you need some quick introduction to Scheme, here's an online introduction: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dorai/t-y-scheme/ Here's a longer, more complete document (is actually a printed book): http://www.scheme.com/tspl2d/ The relevant threads on the Cocoon-dev on how continuations can be used in the scope of Cocoon are here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&w=2&r=1&s=flowmaps%3A+the+wrong+approach&q=t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?w=2&r=1&s=%5Brt%5D+Managing+Flow+and+Resources&q=t It's a lot of reading, so you may want to look at a complex sample of how one would write a Web app using a language with continuations: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=100802231017059&w=2 Hope this helps, -- Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://orion.rgv.hp.com/ (inside HP's firewall only) http://sourceforge.net/users/ovidiu/ (my SourceForge page) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/ (GNU, Emacs, other stuff) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
