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dozzie on May 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: So You Want to Write Your Own Language (2014)

And then, inside this "DSL" in Lisp, can you have a completely different language, with significant spaces and unmatched parentheses? Or is it just Lisp data structures that are then interpreted and you're pretending to use language other than Lisp because of its flexible data structures notation?

shakna on May 20, 2017 | [–]

Yes, with reader macros. So far that you can have C[0], as you know it.

[0] http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/c

TeMPOraL on May 20, 2017 | [–]

With reader macros, yes you can.

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