[racket] How to extend the syntax-checker?

On May 29, 2014, at 11:49 PM, Daniel Brady <dabrady at umail.iu.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just finished creating a small #lang language, and now I would like to start creating some static debugging tools for it. The first thing on my list is a basic syntax checker. I consulted the DrRacket documentation on creating tools and plugins, but honestly it went a bit over my head: this is my first foray into extending anything, and I don't really know where to start.
> 
> So my question(s) boils down to this: how can I provide syntax checking for my little #lang language? My little language really just provides some new syntactic forms, and is built directly on top of Racket, so there's nothing fancy I need to do with this: I just need to provide some new rules to the built-in syntax checker so that it also recognizes my extensions. How can I do this?


If that's all there is, DrRacket provides Check Syntax automatically for your language. Part of the goal of the project is to specialize the IDE to new languages automatically. (No we're not there yet in general.) 

-- Matthias