Re: [racket-users] [ANN] Racket implementation of magic language

2019-08-01 Thread Jonathan Simpson
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't used scribble before, but I'll look into it. Do you feel that it would be helpful to add scribble documentation for the magic language itself, or are you just referring to the API provided by #lang magic modules? For the language itself, I can see documentatio

Re: [racket-users] [ANN] Racket implementation of magic language

2019-07-31 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Jonathan Simpson wrote on 7/31/19 9:54 PM: #lang magic is my implementation of the mini language used by the Unix file command. Nice.  In addition to the practical merits, and the craft, it's also an example of a useful legacy DSL we can point to (like lex, yacc, make), and which Racket now i

[racket-users] [ANN] Racket implementation of magic language

2019-07-31 Thread Jonathan Simpson
#lang magic is my implementation of the mini language used by the Unix file command. I'm aiming for compatibility with Ian Darwin's version , found in most Linux and BSD distributions. #lang magic is a work in progress. It is missing a lot of functionality but s