On 2/03/19 3:27 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> On Mar 1, 2019, at 2:15 AM, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 24/02/19 12:08 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >>> 2. The means of implementation in Racket are radically different from a >>> lexer-parser approach. >> Wait, does this mean that the Beautiful Racket book is leading me down the >> wrong path? I'm in the middle of the bf chapter >> <https://beautifulracket.com/bf/>, which (if I am understanding it >> correctly, is using a lexer and a parser. > Please read this comment in context. This line is a response to a particular > point raised in the Reddit link of the original post. On this Reddit thread, > someone seems to confuse creating DSLs with writing new syntax for > more-or-less standard semantic concepts. For such people, it matters to find > a conventional Lex-Yacc (replace with modern words) tool chain plus perhaps > some support for backend creation. > > [snip]
I apologise for missing the context; I did take a look at the thread, but I still misunderstood your remark initially. Thanks for the clarification. Regards, Aidan Gauland -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
