Re: FreeMarker, ANTLR & New Free Marker Template Notations [was: JetBrains / IntelliJ IDEA v8 to Support FreeMarker!]

Hi, Daniel,

On Thursday 03 April 2008 09:17, you wrote:
> Yeah, sorry for not being too clear. By "it", I meant Scheme.
>
> The "standardised" way would be using the Java 6 Scripting API and
> and a JSR-223 compliant engine to run your Scheme scripts. The only
> JSR-223 implementation I know for scheme is the one provided here:
> https://scripting.dev.java.net/, which uses SISC under the cover, but
> that's the one I found be very buggy and unreliable.
>
> By "directly" I meant using SISC the way it is used standalone, as
> described here:
> http://sisc-scheme.org/manual/html/ch02.html#running-sisc, for
> example, or here:
> http://sisc-scheme.org/manual/html/ch08.html#JavaToScheme. I can't
> say anything about either way, as I have never used it.
>
> As I did not try SISC directly, my goal was to test JSR-223
> implementations, not learning Scheme, it might be that the one to
> blame for the buggy behaviour I experimented was SISC and not the
> scripting engine, but the look I had at the scripting engine code and
> the behaviour exhibited in very simple tests suggest otherwise.

I'd kind of forgotten about (or overlooked) the JSR-223 route. If it's 
buggy, it's probably just 'cause it's new. (One can hope.)


> So, what I meant is that unless you want to be able to later on swap
> Scheme with another scripting language and you can find/provide an
> alternative JSR-223 comliant implementation, I would avoid the Java 6
> Scripting API route to execute Scheme from Java.

Well, I'm looking at Scheme not as just another scripting language, but 
rather as one that is particularly well-suited to the specific tasks I 
have to accomplish (and I generally like Lisp). Plus, while some of my 
requirements can be characterized as scripting my application, the 
thing I want first and most is an easily programmed, pattern-directed 
transformation / rewriting process.


Anyway, thanks for the clarifications.


> S!
> D.


Randy


> S'està citant Randall R Schulz <[email protected]>:
> > On Thursday 03 April 2008 01:29, Daniel López wrote:
> >> ...
> >>
> >> So if you want to use it, you might want to use it directly
> >> instead of through the now-standardised way.
> >
> > By "it" do you mean Scheme? If so, what is the "now-standardised"
> > way and what is "directly?"

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