Thanks for sharing your tutorial (it is, although your initial intention was as a reminder for yourself) Very clear exposition. You made a very important step by discovering how to make your own languages. In the long past I have made many languages for specific applications, but without the nice tools of Racket (fortran and an assembler with a very good macro system allowing recursion and meta macros, id est macros that produce macros) Making a language with these tools would require a 1000 to 10000 lines of code. With Racket a hundred or a few hundred lines of code may be sufficient. I share your enthousiasm for Racket. Kind regards, Jos
-----Original Message----- From: users-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:users-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Joan Arnaldich Sent: domingo, 07 de agosto de 2011 17:44 To: users@racket-lang.org Subject: [racket] Adding raw string syntax Hi there! I'm just starting to learn Racket. One of the thing that I appreciate most so far is the language extensibility (IMHO, the feature that makes it so unique compared to other languages...). So, when I couldn't find anything like python's raw string syntax (strings introduced by r'') or c#'s @"" strings, I thought... well, let's try a bit of language DIY... So I went through the Guide and the brainfudge tutorial and came up with a solution that worked as I wanted. I blogged about it here: http://jarnaldich.me/2011/08/07/raw-strings-in-racket.html In fact, I wrote that entry (well most of them...) more as a reminder for myself than as a tutorial, but I still think it makes sense to publish it, if only to demonstrate how you can tune the language to match your personal tastes... something you can't do in every language, for sure... The problem is, as I said, that I'm just starting with Racket, so while the solution works as expected so far, maybe I misunderstood or skipped something in the documentation and just got it all wrong... so any comments would be much appreciated, if only to reassure myself... BTW, I searched the list and the docs for this feature before implemeting mine... the only thing I found were some old questions on backslashing in strings for regexes. But maybe this was already implemented somewhere else and I couldn't find it... Thanks in advance! Joan. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
