I apologize to the readers that may have a hard time getting rid of the image of myself in a bath :)))
Sorry :) > Hi, > > Nice feature if you write a spreadsheet app maybe. > Still wonder who would use a console to interact with a spreadsheet :)) > > Just kidding. > > Tagged literals are the way to go to extend the reader. > If lisp notation is so much a pain then build your own reader using a tool > like ... instaparse. > > Your proposal makes the reader something else than a simple lisp reader. > Much more harder to maintain. > > The day some 'custom extensions' break with your reader on steroids, the > maintenance nightmare will start. > > Having played in the past with configurable Lisp readers, I see were this can > lead us and it's not a smooth road. > > Clojure has been build from well focused individual components. > > Your current proposal is risky at best, and the benefits weak. > > As far as the parenthesis syndrome, > I have been exposing non-coders (illiterate in fact) to DSLs written with > parenthesis, vectors and so on for a while. > > Surprisingly to some, they did not barf at the syntax cues. They have been > modifying files with success for a while. > > That makes to me the direct support of DSLs by the reader less sexy. > > Nothing personal in the above comments, you wanted some feedback. Here it is. > > I am not saying that all your ideas are to dumped. It would be nice to have > parsers for tag literals like csv expressions and probably other ideas can > come out of your proposal. > > What I an trying to say is decompose and implement the worthwhile ones as > separate pieces that others can reuse. > > If some pass the test of time and general use then they may end up in some > contrib lib or in the core possibly. > > I apologize for typos, been typing ob my iPhone from my bath :) > > Luc P. > > > Not anybody? I'm a little puzzled: is this feature so useless? I thought > > embedding stuff like CSV data in Clojure code "as is" could be a nice > > feature. > > https://github.com/henrik42/extended-lisp-reader#parsing-csv > > No need to rewrite it in Clojure syntax/string literals or other forms. > > > > I think after having tagged literals (which still stick to Clojure > > forms/syntax) > > it could be the next step in building DSLs with Clojure. > > > > Henrik > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Luc Prefontaine<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail! > > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Luc Prefontaine<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail! -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
