Drill into "for configuration" some more pls

[paul-hammant]

"for configuration" sounds like it be an alternative to YAML or TOML for config files for applications.

If yes, then an example in the README would be good.

[kflu]

Good point. Thanks. Providing a simplist example as you suggested is definately useful. Meanwhile, here is a more complex example - let me know if that helps.

BTW - it'd be great if you can pick this work up and provide a "hello world" level example for this :) Send me a PR if you're interested 😄

[paul-hammant]

I'll circle back another day for something, I'm sure.

Meanwhile, if you've a coffee-break amount of time coming up, you may enjoy https://paulhammant.com/2013/03/28/interface-builders-alternative-lisp-timeline/ :)

[kflu]

Thanks Paul. It was an interesting read - it's encouraging to see Lisp got used in this way so many years ago 😄

[paul-hammant]

The stroke of genius was that the same script was 'played' into one of two implementations: 1 - the UI designer tool, 2 - the runtime lib (presumably callable from other languages like Objective-C).

Point being, a "smarter" editor is possible for you too. Smarter than an AST sitting behind a CR-delimited text file :)

[vivainio]

Would be nice to see an example on creating some tree-value pairs (with some lists and dicts thrown in), and reading those in in c# side

[syeerzy]

i think when we call a lisp "for configuration" sounds like it be like emacslisp or autolisp.

not json/YAML/TOML . not for some tree-value or pair, but some complex things.