On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 15:55, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote: >> 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. > > An interesting opinion. I'd like to know which specific domains you > have in mind.
How about documentation? It seems to me that something like Markdown [1] reStructuredText [2] or even LaTeX [3] is easier to read and write than raw s-expressions [4]. [1] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ [2] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html [3] http://www.latex-project.org/ [4] https://github.com/relevance/labrepl/blob/master/src/labs/names_and_places.clj It's worth noting that the PLT-Racket (nee PLT-Scheme) people came up with a clever solution to bridge this gap: Scribble, a custom reader that consumes a LaTeX-like syntax to produce S-Expressions [5]. So, if you're clever you can have your cake and eat it too. [5] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4017 I wonder, would a Clojure analog to PLT's Scribble be useful? // Ben -- 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
