Re: Growing a data type?
- From: William James <w_a_x_man@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:40:35 -0700 (PDT)
On Oct 31, 6:08 am, Ali <emailalicl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Just watched Guy Steele's Growing a Language (http://video.google.com/
videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415), very impressive.
Lisp got plus points for being able to abstract both abstract syntax
and function calls.
Here's a (hopefully) fun question: If Lisp didn't have a string data
type already, could you grow one which was indistinguishable from the
standard implementation, including double quote delimiters?
I don't expect this to be answered because I don't think I know any
language which can do this
This is trivial in Forth. The limitation is that the
opening double-quote mark must be followed by a space.
Instead of
"foo-bar"
you would have
" foo-bar"
.
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