On Aug 13, 1:30 pm, Brian Hurt <bhur...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm just wondering what people's response would be to allow user-generated > reader macros. [...]
I think you could get most of the benefits for DSL's by using regular strings, except that regular strings have quoting issues: (my-dsl-macro "Here is my string, but I have to escape \" characters, which is unpleasant") A single "super quoted" string reader would avoid this problem. Instead of defining a new read syntax like: #my-syntax(your DSL goes between here and here) Clojure could provide a general purpose string creating read syntax. Something like #"... (my-dsl-macro #"///Here is a specially quoted string, and I can put anything besides three slashes in it///) (my-dsl-macro #"--- In this case, I can type anything except three dashes---) (pretend-this-one-is-apl #"///X[⍋X+.≠' ';]///) They're just plain old macros, so namespaces would be resolve as they do now. Just a thought... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
