Nice Inline Syntax for DSLs

[Knud Soerensen]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:08:47 -0600, Tyler Knott wrote:

> 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
> # }
> 
No, I meant something like.

compilerFunc draw[, ...] 
{ 
...   // parser code for the draw dsl.   
};

and then it is used like

draw
{
moveto x,y;
circle(2.0);
...
}

the should be no need to repeat "compilerFunc[, ...]"
every time the dsl is needed.