Hi all,
For those who are not familiar with Scribble, it is basically a
preprocessor for Racket (a dialect of Lisp) which makes its syntax more
concise when working with lots of text, effectively turning it into a
template engine (see http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/reader.html for
details). TLDR: a very small subset of Scribble would transform
@func{text text @other-func{more text} final words.}
to
(func "text text " (other-func "more text") " final words.")
I would like to implement it in Clojure as a learning project (say, the
simple subset of it shown above, for a start). My question is, what should
I use? Let's say for simplicity that the entry point is some function
(load-file-scribble "filename.scribble") that returns Clojure code same as
(load-file "filename.clj") does. As far as my general understanding of
programming languages goes, I have to:
1. extend the tokenizer to support additional syntax;
2. extend the parser (?) to convert the new tokens into corresponding
Clojure tokens;
3. feed the result to the Clojure parser
(although I might be completely wrong).
There is the ``tools.reader`` module, which seems more or less suitable,
but I cannot find the hooks that would allow me to extend its functionality
in the required way. Is it the right tool, or should I look some other way?
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