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[PATCH 0/6] gnu: Update Racket to 8.6. Add Zuo.

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Message #293 received at 57050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>, Efraim Flashner
 <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: 57050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "\(" <paren <at> disroot.org>,
 Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>,
 Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/14] gnu: Add Zuo.
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:01:32 +0200

Am Donnerstag, dem 25.08.2022 um 16:04 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
> How does this seem?
> 
>       (description "Zuo (作) is a tiny Racket with primitives for
> dealing
I don't think (作) adds anything meaningful.  Perhaps a Chinese
translation might want to use that character, but in English we have to
deal with the fact that most no one will understand that. 
> with files and running processes.  It comes with a @command{make}-
> like
> embedded DSL, which is used to build Racket itself.
> 
> Zuo is a Racket variant in the sense that program files start with
> @code{#lang}, and the module path after @code{#lang} determines the
> parsing
> and expansion of the file content.  That's how the @command{make}-
> like DSL is
> defined, and even the base Zuo language is defined by layers of
> @code{#lang}s.
> One of the early layers implements macros.")
I'd probably cut out the middle sentence in this paragraph, but
otherwise LGTM.

Cheers

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