[plt-scheme] pipe-between

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Synx <plt at synx.us.to> wrote:
> Something I've rolled around in my head for some time is how annoyingly
> simple the bash "pipe" syntax is. Why shouldn't a more sensible language
> be able to do that as well? So I hacked together this syntax, which you
> might find useful. I ran that test procedure and it seems to have worked
> fine. Only problem is what is leftmost in bash syntax becomes rightmost
> in this syntax, but not sure that's worth bothering with.

There's lots of prior art here from SCSH [1].  I've long thought that
PLT could use an adaptation of lots of the SCSH libraries - this would
be a good place to start.

[1] http://www.scsh.net/ , see esp. the process notation at
http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man-Z-H-3.html#node_sec_2.2
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu