Fair enough, lol. Thanks :)
Tim Washington twash...@gmail.com 416.843.9060 On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Timothy Washington <twash...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Indeed :) > > I've actually been thinking about that. And from what I can tell, LISP > DSLs > > are simply extensions to the LISP language. But maybe I still haven't > gotten > > my head wrapped around 'defmacros' and how they implements DSLs. It seems > to > > me though, that someone could still want to parse SQL or XQuery or any > > non-s-expression grammar. And I don't see how to do that with > 'defmacros'. > > So, clojure does currently handle non s-expression grammars, but... > > > > XML - uses Java's xml parser facility > > Regex - is handled by Java's regex facility > > etc > > > > Am I missing something here? From what I can tell, you'd still need an > > outside library, or Parser Generator (BNF or otherwise), to handle > something > > like SQL or XQuery. > > I suppose you might, if you really need to interoperate with > non-binary, legacy data formats. Most commonly, though, these days > that means XML and there's clojure.xml for that. ;) > > -- > 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 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
