[racket] Sweet-expression support in Racket?

From: andrew cooke (andrew at acooke.org)
Date: Mon Dec 6 15:03:44 EST 2010

 Thanks.  If I don't hear anything more I'll give it a go.  Need to 
 learn something new...  Andrew

 On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:54:36 -0500, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> 
 wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> I am not aware of such a language, but one could easily be written in
> the same vein as "#lang s-exp <MODULE>", which uses the concrete
> syntax of s-expressions and the language bindings of <MODULE> for the
> rest of the file.  Making "#lang sweet-exp <MODULE>" do the same 
> thing
> for sweet-expressions should be as easy as writing a sweet-expression
> reader and plugging it in to syntax/module-reader.
>
> Carl Eastlund
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:48 PM, andrew cooke <andrew at acooke.org> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Racket appears to be carefully implemented for multiple syntaxes. 
>>  Does that
>> mean that a sweet-expression (or similar) lang or reader already 
>> exists?  I
>> have searched around, but cannot find one.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
>> PS Sweet expressions -
>> http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html



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