From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T11:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: Lisp macros

Joe Van Dyk wrote:

>On 9/26/05, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>The big thing Lisp has that Ruby can't do is code-as-data. I wish I
>>could provide a good example of how that might be used practically, but
>>it's been quite a while since I touched lisp.
>>    
>>
>If anyone wants to chime in with an example of what code-as-data is or
>how it could be used, I'd appreciate it!
>  
>
--- foo.properties ---
foo_name = 'MyFoo',
foo_description = 'A code-as-data foo'
foo_question = 'Why is this useful?'
foo_answer = "Ah, well, sometimes it is"

--- foo_properties_loader.rb ---
puts File.read('foo.properties')
puts

load 'foo.properties'
puts  foo_question
puts foo_answer

:)

Alex