Hey Craig, Thanks for the input. Forgive my naiveté, but I gather you're implying that the DSL-ishness is desirable? That makes sense, and it seems to be inline with what I'm learning about the lisp mindset.
You're suggestion is actually a lot more like an option that I was considering but didn't do because it seemed to depart from things like project.clj that I was emulating. But it might actually make sense to take it a step further to make the scoping within CloudFormation templates more explicit. I updated my gist with an even more DSL-like concept: https://gist.github.com/bellkev/7653342 On Monday, November 25, 2013 11:49:20 PM UTC-8, Craig wrote: > > > I don't know much about CF templates, but stripping some detail from your > middle fragment moves further from data and to a DSL: > > (deftemplate my-template > :aws-template-format-version "2010-09-09" > :description "My description" > > (param my-parameter :type :string :description "My string parameter") > > (mapping my-mapping > :first-level-key-one {:second-level-key-one "Value"} > :first-level-key-two {:second-level-key-two "Another Value"}) > > (condition my-condition (not my-parameter)) > (condition my-second-condition (= (-> my-mapping :first-level-key-one > :second-level-key-one) my-parameter)) > > (resource my-instance aws.ec2/instance :image-id "ami-79fd7eee") > > (output my-first-output (:instance-type my-instance)) > (output my-second-output my-parameter)) > > Craig > > > On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:41:29 PM UTC+11, Kevin Bell wrote: >> >> Hey folks, I'm working on a tool to enable the generation of AWS >> CloudFormation templates using a Clojure-based syntax kind of like >> leiningen's project.clj. I'm working on how the syntax should look to be >> most clojurey, and I wonder if anyone has some input: >> https://gist.github.com/bellkev/7653342<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fbellkev%2F7653342&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF5RUFgHxpojQ1x0EPxJFQ09ibA3A> >> >> I should add that I'm very new to Clojure and using this project as an >> opportunity to learn more about the language internals. So please forgive >> any particularly non-idiomatic Clojure... >> >> Thanks!! >> > -- -- 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.
