I am not convinced that typing more delimiter characters is a better thing. The string representation is ... shorter and less error prone.
As Mark said, a string isolates you from the reader which could change its behavior over time introducing other undesirable side effects like {} with an uneven # of args. Thank you for this parser Mark, it's just in time, I have a need for this that came to life a week ago :) Will definitively try this in the next month or so. Luc P. > Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Mark, > > > Example: > > > > (def as-and-bs > > (parser > > "S = AB* > > AB = A B > > A = 'a'+ > > B = 'b'+")) > > Nice, but providing the grammar as a plain string looks somewhat > unnatural to me. Why not something like this (parser being a macro)? > > (def as-and-bs > (parser > S = AB* . > AB = A B . > A = "a" + . > B = "b" + .)) > > I.e., symbols denote non-terminals, strings denote terminals, and the > dot indicates the end of a rule. > > Bye, > Tassilo > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Softaddicts<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail from my ipad! -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.