From: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Cc: "Edouard Klein" <edk@beaver-labs.com>,
guix-devel@gnu.org, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"Josselin Poiret" <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Subject: Re: Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations)
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:14:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jnjf5B_RIA-iDBpFDNOAW8x81BRfH-iJa4Sglg6cC0yM2HPz3UbDtjsyGrdtf4UQSwn3PRM15kabJS6c9LGbuenMYBq0dbkfgnYnYeN7TrE=@lendvai.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52c2337b277721108e5e7cdd6ea32e37e3c20628.camel@gmail.com>
> (service+ OS SERVICE [CONF])
> (service- OS SERVICE)
> (modify-service OS SERVICE UPDATE)
what would the benefit of generating multiple macros for each service compared to the above functional API (with 3-4 elements altogether)?
i could be missing something here, but it seems to be precious little to me while it costs some extra complexity.
if i were to add a syntactic abstraction for this, i'd generate a full DSL in the form of a (modify-operating-system OS [fictional DSL to describe desired changes]).
but i don't think the extra complexity justifies any macrology here.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-25 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-23 8:06 A friendlier API for operating-system declarations Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 18:48 ` Josselin Poiret
2023-03-23 20:23 ` Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 21:05 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-04-13 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-18 14:37 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 21:43 ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 22:50 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-25 20:14 ` Attila Lendvai [this message]
2023-11-26 5:36 ` Michal Atlas
2023-11-26 16:49 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-26 18:32 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-26 20:46 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-27 21:09 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-29 20:12 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-11-29 23:39 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-11-30 11:16 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-12-01 18:18 ` Michal Atlas
2024-02-01 13:29 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-02-01 19:43 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-01 20:30 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-01 20:46 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-02 20:11 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-01 21:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-02-02 19:36 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02 20:21 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-02-02 21:25 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02 0:03 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! Carlo Zancanaro
2024-02-18 15:07 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Edouard Klein
2023-12-09 10:12 ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Ludovic Courtès
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