On Sep 9, John Cowan wrote:
> Sam TH scripsit:
>
> > Scribble would be vastly less useful if it wasn't used via `read'.
>
> The purpose of "read" is to read S-expressions in the Scheme
> language. Why can't mixed Scheme and Scribble be read through an
> implementation-specific (or even SRFI-based)
> "read-scheme-and-scribble" procedure?
The most important point about the design of the Scribble syntax (and
a central theme in my paper about it) is that it is read as
S-expressions. So source code can contain @-forms which are read in
as S-expressions and are given meaning according to the usual Scheme
scope (functions, macros, imported definitions, etc). For example,
you can write
(let ([starred (lambda body (list "*" body "*"))])
@html{Blah blah @starred{Some text here} blah.})
and the compiler sees that as plain Scheme code:
(let ([starred (lambda body (list "*" body "*"))])
(html "Blah blah " (starred "Some text here") " blah."))
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