Lisp is such a joy to implement. FORTH is fun too.
I'm working on a scheme-alike on and off. The idea is to take the message
passing and delegation from Self, expose it in Lisp, and then map all of that
to JavaScript.
One idea I had when I was messing around with OMetaJS was that it might have
some kind of "escape syntax" like
(let ((x 1))
#{x++; }#
)
Would basically mean
(let ((x 1))
(+ x 1))
...which would make doing "primitives" feel pretty smooth, and also give you
the nice JSON syntax.
The rule is simple too, '#{' followed by anything:a up until '}#' -> eval(a)
Only problem is relating environment context between the two languages, which I
haven't bothered to figure out yet. The JS eval() in this case is insufficient.
(Sorry about the pseudocode, on a phone and don't keep OMeta syntax in my
head...)
On Jul 21, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Alan Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> JSON is all well and good as far as lowest common denominators go. However,
> you might want to consider EDN:
>
> https://github.com/edn-format/edn
>
> On the other hand, if you are doing that then you might as well go *all* the
> way and re-invent half of Common Lisp :-)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
>
> Alan Moore
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm. I've been thinking about creating a macro language written in JSON that
> operates on JSON structures. Has someone done similar work? Should I just
> create a JavaScript AST in JSON? Or should I create an AST specifically for
> JSON manipulation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
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