From: Friedrich Dominicus <just-for-news-frido@...>
Date: 2005-06-14T14:45:31+09:00
Subject: Re: embedding a language into Ruby

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
>> Well I hope the question is clear. Let us assume one want to develop a
>> new language but use the existing Ruby infractructure. Do you know
>> anyone having worked in that area? Do you know an example of such a
>> use of Ruby?
>
> There have got to be lots of examples. My own project, redshift, is an 
> embedded language for specifying the behavior of hybrid automata 
> (discrete transitions plus differential equations). There are a number 
> of tricks you can play with blocks, instance_eval, and class methods to 
> make your syntax look nice. Sometimes you have to resort to strings, but 
> even then you can make them look nice with %{ }.
Well I would like to not start all the machinery but use mostly Ruby,
with some extensions. But if that turned out to be not "good enough",
I have to consider the larger possibilities. 

Regards
Friedrich

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