Nice Inline Syntax for DSLs

[Leandro Lucarella]

Tyler Knott escribió:
> Knud Soerensen wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:35:46 -0700, Russell Lewis wrote:
>>
>> Well, we already have asm as a dsl.
>> Why not use a similar syntax like:
>>
>> dslname {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> We just need a way to tell the compiler which passer to use for dslname.
> 
> I was thinking of a similar syntax as well, except it would look like this:
> 
> # dsl(compilerFunc[, ...])
> # {
> #     DSL GOES HERE
> # }
> 
> With three restrictions:
> 1. All curly braces within the DSL must be balanced.
> 2. compilerFunc must be evaluable at compile time.
> 3. compilerFunc must use the signature char[] function(char[][, ...]).

Maybe
# dsl(compilerFunc[, ...]):
# DSL GOES HERE TO THE EOF

Because you don't impose any restrictions on the DSL syntax (removes the 
restriction 1). The only drawback I see in this, is it has to be some 
kind of special key where only ':' block syntax shoul be used, and where 
no other block can appear before the end of file.

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