Some of what we've been talking about on the Web_Dialect list.
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I've been thinking some more about dialects this afternoon - so I
thought it best to keep on this topic... ^_^ :-)
I've been wondering how it is that the parse dialect works, yet there
is no obvious dialect word or such like. I also thought about objects.
Much like, say, this one:
HTML: make object! [
Head: ...
Body: ...
]
and I thought to myself, 'Head and 'Body are in the _context_ of the
'HTML object. Parse rules make no sense outside their block. Neither do
words, that are in a object, make sense out of it. So then I came
inside and played with REBOL, and invented a HTML dialect on the spot
(I'm typing it into the REBOL console):
>> MyHtmlDialect: [
[ Head
[ Title "My Example Title!"
[ Body [Text Black BGColor Cream]
[ H1 Title
[ {This document discusses dialects!
{ It should be easy to read as it's written
{ with a new HTML dialect designed and developed on OpenWeb.}
[ P {This is a new paragraph.}
[ UL
[ LI "Point 1"
[ LI "Point 2"
[ LI "Point 3"
[ ]
== [
Head
Title "My Example Title!"
Body [Text Black BGColor Cream]
H1 Title
{This document discusses diale...
Seems fairly easy and there's very few blocks required. So what
processes it? This (or something very close to it):
HTML!: make object! [
Head: func [] [print "I'm a Head!"]
Body: func [] [print "I'm a Body!"]
Dialect: func [Language [block!]] [
if error? try bind Language 'Body [
print "Problems!"
exit
]
print "OK!"
]
]
And here it is running (with a very small example):
>> HTML!/Dialect [head body]
I'm a Head!
I'm a Body!
OK!
Comments?
Andrew Martin
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