Version flag status and sample implementation Lassi Kortela (28 Nov 2019 15:40 UTC)
Re: Version flag status and sample implementation Arthur A. Gleckler (28 Nov 2019 16:53 UTC)
Re: Version flag status and sample implementation Shiro Kawai (28 Nov 2019 21:54 UTC)
Version vs release vs revision Lassi Kortela (29 Nov 2019 13:59 UTC)
Environment variables and other alists with string keys Lassi Kortela (03 Dec 2019 15:10 UTC)
Re: Environment variables and other alists with string keys Lassi Kortela (03 Dec 2019 15:31 UTC)

Environment variables and other alists with string keys Lassi Kortela 03 Dec 2019 15:10 UTC

Here's a comprehensive set of readers using different tools, all
producing equivalent results:
<https://github.com/lassik/srfi-176/tree/for-draft-2/implementation>.

It's capable of parsing nested sublists like these:

(platform (computer x86-64) (endian little))

(c-type-bits (int 32) (long 64) (pointer 64) (size_t 64))

That relies on those sublists not having strings, so that the parser
doesn't have to worry about parentheses inside double-quotes and things
like that.

One thing that still bothers me is that that syntax can't do things like:

(environment ("TERM" "screen") ("LANG" "en_US.UTF-8"))
(java-system-properties ("java.vm.name" "OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM"))

Those lists could be flattened:

(environment "TERM=screen" "LANG=en_US.UTF-8")
(java-system-properties "java.vm.name=OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM")

Or written on multiple lines, but that would cause other problems:

(environment "TERM" "screen")
(environment "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
(java-system-properties "java.vm.name" "OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM")
(java-system-properties "java.vm.version" "12+33")

Opinions?