Transparent Syntax Extensions

[LiberalArtist]

@selfofly

I'm interested in exploring these ambiguities in my thesis, so I need a system with as much freedom as possible in terms of creating them.

If you're looking at this sort of thing from a research perspective, you might be interested in:

@LiberalArtist

Will Crichton and Shriram Krishnamurthi, “A Core Calculus for Documents: Or, Lambda: The Ultimate Document” (POPL2024).

Will, @samth, and I got into a discussion on Mastodon about how its analytic categories apply to Scribble.

I was looking for more @elibarzilay’s writing about Scribble, as the things I was remembering weren’t discussed in detail in “The Scribble Reader: An Alternative to S-expressions for Textual Content”. The most relevant thing I remembered is an old mailing list thread:

udelim package -- more parens than you can shake a stick at

Separately, for a more thorough introduction to these parts of Racket, you might consider:

Beautiful Racket by Matthew Butterick