Hey there guys.<br><br>I'm new to LISP/scheme (I'm from the ruby world), trying a lot of stuff to make<br>sense of this new environment. One particular thing I've found that would really<br>smooth the line of effort is sweet-expressions<br>
(<a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/">http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/</a>). The author was gentle enough even to<br>provide a why do it here<br><a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable.html">http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable.html</a> .<br>
<br>So quoting a conversation I had with the author:<br><br> Eduardo Bellani:<br> >> Would you know if your sweet-expressions would work on PLT Scheme<br> >> (I'm reaching for some way to develop a web app with sweet expressions<br>
>> here, just to show case it to a study group, perhaps get some<br> >> people interested)?<br> ><br> >I don't know if it'd work on PLT Scheme, but if it doesn't, it should be extremely<br>
>trivial to make it work.<br> ><br> >The Scheme implementation of sweet-expressions is intentionally<br> >written to be _very_ portable; I actively strived to avoid anything that<br> >wasn't explicitly promised by the Scheme (R5) spec.<br>
>The one exception is modules, which R5 didn't have at all, so you may<br> >need to edit the (few) lines to cause it to be combined into a module.<br> >Nearly all Schemes have _some_ module system, but they're all slightly<br>
>different :-(.<br> ><br> >The code I wrote (modulo reuse) uses a relatively small dialect of Scheme.<br> >I want it to be easily translatable to Common Lisp and ACL2, so I intentionally<br> >avoided some Scheme capabilities.<br>
<br>I'm looking for a hand on porting this to PLT, since I'm trying here is to learn<br>lisp using that, and to port it I would need to learn lisp, and so on :P<br><br>Would anyone care to lend a hand?<br>Hugs<br>
<br>-- <br>Eduardo Bellani<br><br><a href="http://www.cnxs.com.br">www.cnxs.com.br</a><br><br>"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary." The Talmud<br>