On 5 March 2011 20:35, Timothy Washington <twash...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
Please note that "DSLs in Lisp" doesn't automatically mean "defmacro". I found Christophe Grand's treatise on this topic enlightening: http://vrac.cgrand.net/DSL.pdf Apparently it's easy to fall into the trap of building your DSL mostly around macros, which limits the composability and dynamism you would get by using functions instead. Some real-world project that got bitten by this fallacy include ClojureQL, lazytest and Enlive, where at some point during development, large parts got scrapped and rebuilt using less macros: http://bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2010/11/clojureql--revolutions.html http://stuartsierra.com/2010/07/31/slightly-less-typed-assertions http://github.com/cgrand/enlive/commit/944312b1621ac5cf20bf306d2a7f0653fc2ee519 -- 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
