Lisp-like html as a replacement to bbcode/markup/textile

Post by majormajor » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 4:09 PM UTC

bithive123 wrote: post #56

I've found HAML ( http://haml.info/ ) to be my ideal reduced HTML syntax, strange not to see it mentioned here.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 4:19 PM UTC

taylorfausak wrote: post #55

JimmyRuska wrote: post #40

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Line by line parsers are much much more limited. This can support syntax transformations and html attributes. This is more of an html-alternative in terms of capability. Markdown links are ugly and you need double space instead of single space for every space you input. I could do something like replace things nested in as italics but I'd rather have normal characters not turned into formatting. Lisp might look ugly…

What's wrong with Markdown links [1]? I'd have a hard time coming up with a better syntax than this: [Google][] [google]: http://www.google.com/ [Google][1] [1]: http://www.google.com/ [Google](http://www.google.com) I'm not sure what you mean about double-spacing either. Line breaks ( ) are made by adding two spaces to the end of a line. If you don't like that, try GitHub-flavored Markdown [2]. [1]: http://daringfir…

Post by draegtun » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 5:01 PM UTC

chalst wrote: post #58

zachallaun wrote: post #39

I think that this is an interesting experiment, and reminds me of Clojure's hiccup[1] library. In hiccup, you model html to be rendered as nested vectors and maps, such that bar becomes (html [:span {:class "foo"} "bar"]) Where this is a real win is when you realize that it's just data: (html [:ol (for [x (range 1 4)] [:li x])]) Lisps are well suited to model html. [1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

Oleg Kiselyov has done some nice work where he defines SXML, a representation of XML in Scheme, and parsers/ pretty printers between XML and Scheme. This allows you to use hygienic macros (hygiene becomes important in the absence of namespaces). See http://www.okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html#SXML-spec Lua's table syntax is well-suited to this style of embedding html/xml syntax in a programming language, e.g., if you de…

  [a => {href=>url, name=>'next'}, 'Go to the', [i => 'next'], 'element'];    # perl5

  [a => {:href(url), :name}, 'Go to the', [:i], 'element'];       # perl6

  [:a => {:href=>url, :name=>'next'}, 'Go to the', [:i => 'next'], 'element'] # ruby
  

    use HTML::AsSubs;

    sub url { 'http://www.anythingfornow.com' }

    my $h = html(
        a( {href=>url, name=>'next'},
           'Go to the',
           i('next'),
           'element',
        ),
    );

    say $h->as_HTML;

Post by batista » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

ash wrote: post #33

danielbarla wrote: post #30

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Out of curiosity, do Russian developers permanently use an English layout, or just map these keys elsewhere?

Switching layout is not an issue when typing code. You just type in English because keywords and API are obviously in English. The problem exist only for markup languages where you type prose. Still (in addition to English letters) these are hard to type in Russian layout: { } ' @ # $ ` (and more - depends on a keyboard and operating system). Update. I've just noticed square brackets [ ] on my (Cyrillic) Mac keyboard…

Post by monsto » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

JimmyRuska wrote: post #43

buster wrote: post #21

No. How does it replace markup?! It's still writing html but (more or less) using {} instead of . That's just silly, imo. Markup (and restructured text) are so much more concise because you don't need to know what's or or whatever. Also, the page itself uses markup in HTML (not CSS)... wow.. back in 1995 again, are we?

Line by line parsers are extremely limited and markdown makes use of everyday characters we use in text for their formatting. The page itself uses style tags at the top so not sure what you mean. This is just showing off my progress so far of something I plan to use. Not an announcement telling you this is the future.