On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at 04:13, Philip McGrath <phi...@philipmcgrath.com> wrote:
> > However, in some cases you might really want a program other than `racket` > as the entry point for your language: for instance, maybe you want to have > flags for controlling where the output goes. One example of such a program > is the `scribble` executable included in the main Racket distribution. The > implementation is in < > https://github.com/racket/scribble/blob/master/scribble-lib/scribble/run.rkt>, > and the associated "info.rkt" file (< > https://github.com/racket/scribble/blob/master/scribble-lib/scribble/info.rkt>) > arranges for `raco setup` to create a `scribble` to run it. (This example > uses the old mzscheme-launcher-names/mzscheme-launcher-libraries instead of > the newer racket-launcher-names/racket-launcher-libraries: see > documentation at < > https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/setup-info.html#%28idx._%28gentag._18._%28lib._scribblings%2Fraco%2Fraco..scrbl%29%29%29 > >.) > Thanks for the pointer. > It is possible to use Racket to implement languages that don't use #lang, > but you would loose many advantages like IDE support and well-defined > separate compilation, and you would need to use some fairly low-level > mechanisms. Unless there is a hard requirement, I'd recommend that you just > use #lang in your programs. I'm trying to write a standalone assembler (nothing to do with Racket), so I'm happy to lose this advantage! There are many possible ways to organize this… Thanks for this, that's exactly what I was after. -- https://rrt.sc3d.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAOnWdogTj%3DzMsqCZJhBv%2BiS8zpU2nqETgsiOOt7Wr7aAOmzNzA%40mail.gmail.com.
