From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-01-15T17:00:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Help or Advice appreciated for parsing

Have you heard about Markaby and Haml? One of these might be what you
need (unless you just want to write something new for fun).

2012/1/15, Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@pobox.com>:
> On Jan 14, 9:09 pm, Marc Heiler <sheve...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>> So I then thought "Let's try this:"
>>
>>   area.shape 'rext' .coords '1,1,100,50' .href 'http://www.foobar.com'
>>
>> Ok, this does not work in Ruby. Even adding () won't work, the method
>> chaining happens on String object eventually (and I would have cheated,
>> area would be def area, so area() instead, returning a specific class
>> that would respond to methods like shape, coords, href.
>
> There's no reason that with appropriate parens wouldn't work. By
> appropriate parens I mean
>
>   area.shape('rect').coords('1,1,100,50').href('http://
> www.foobar.com')
>
> Look into Fluent Interfaces for more info on that sort of thing.
>
> This easily gets into contentious areas like metaprogramming, blank
> objects, DSLs, and creating new languages (or dialects). Consider how
> much you really want this. Look into already existing projects that
> are already in this arena, like, say, HAML.
>
>> I am not really sure if I am able to express what I am trying to
>> achieve. :)
>
> Well, that's something to work on. Good luck.
>
> --
> -yossef
>
>


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