[racket] Re-usable C-like input syntax

Interesting, but I'm tied to Racket at this point.

On 05/21/2013 03:35 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> If you are willing to switch Scheme implementations, you could use Gambit that has an infix syntax (SIX) which is a subset/superset of C.
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> Marc
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> On May 21, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Tom Schouten<tom at zwizwa.be>  wrote:
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>> Hi List,
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>> Checking if anyone has any ideas or advice on this.
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>> I'm writing a DSL for (music) DSP low-level algorithm design, and I'd like to use some C-like syntax front on top of the default s-expr input to avoid having to confront people with Scheme.
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>> I realize this approach has been tried many times and was abandoned maybe just as much, but I am confronted with a practical issue in the target audience.  It's amazing how much friction a foreign syntax can cause in practical embedded/DSP engineering circles...
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>> Is there anything re-usable out there in Racket land that looks like C but with a simpler grammar or a simple map to s-expressions?  The language I'm implementing is purely functional / single assignment, and looks pretty much like Scheme at this point.
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>> A subset of JavaScript would maybe also be good enough.
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>> Cheers,
>> Tom
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