[racket] Experience using Scrabble evaluators to other languages

On 10/05/2012 02:28 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My goal is to use Scribble to document some code and evaluated code
> using the Scribble eval environments, but I want to do "external
> evaluation" for example against a R6RS Scheme and something totally
> separate like Clojure for example.
>
> Has anyone done this before?
>
> What are some clues or pointers where I might start?

I guess you can make a sandbox evaluator that "evaluates" by sending 
terms to an external process and then reading the results. There are 
evaluation hooks provided by the racket/sandbox library; there's also 
the current-eval parameter, which also affects sandbox evaluation. I'm 
not sure which is better suited to what you want.

Another issue, though, is that you may wish to distribute your 
documentation sources for other people to build even if they don't have 
all of the external programs you want to call. I have a similar 
situation with the 'db' library. You can use 'make-log-based-eval' from 
'unstable/sandbox' to record the interactions on your development 
machine and then check in the logs so that anyone can build the docs 
without the external dependencies. It probably won't compose cleanly 
with the other eval hooks you'll need to install, so you may have to 
adapt the code yourself. If you work out a clean way of composing it 
with your code, let me know.

Ryan