No, you're exactly right. Leaving aside the obvious utility of being able to consume non-sexpr-structured content/data, there are plenty of domains for which s-expressions are not optimal, or even well-suited. Though s-expressions make things a lot easier for "us", they are not the only lens through which the world can (or should) be viewed.
Cheers, - Chas On Mar 5, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Timothy Washington 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. > > Thanks > > > Tim Washington > twash...@gmail.com > 416.843.9060 -- 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
