[Chicken-users] need idea for read-syntax

[Felix Winkelmann]

Hi, all!

I would like to add a read-syntax for embedding C code into expressions
(as opposed to embedding it into the program itself, like "#> ... <#").
It must be possible to specify C code, with an optional type specification.

So far I have just come up with something like:

#>"doSomeInitStuff();"            ; embed statement (no type given)

(print #>"my_version_string" : c-string)     ; embed expression (type 
given)

The #>" isn't particularly nice, since it overloads the #> syntax once 
again.
Some form of delimiter (like #[ ... ]) perhaps? I don't know.
#{ ... } is already used, #" ... " looks to generic, #/ ... / is probably
better for future regexes.

Any ideas are welcome.


cheers,
felix