Specify & document the reader grammar

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Ox - An immutable statically typed Lisp for the JVM

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Specify & document the reader grammar #24

Closed arrdem closed 7 years ago

arrdem commented 7 years ago

Start off with Clojure's datastructures. This isn't great from a typing perspective, but we'll start here.

[ ] Lists (no dotted pairs)
[ ] Quotes
[ ] Vectors
[ ] Mappings
[ ] Sets
[ ] Symbols
[ ] Strings
[ ] Integers
[ ] Doubles/Floats
[ ] Comments

Most of these are trivial. Unfortunately, the grammar for Symbols winds up being fairly complicated because / is a valid symbol and also (Clojure's) namespace delimiter.

arrdem commented 7 years ago

The question of whether I actually need keywords and quoting seems to be an open one, but this work at least is done. We'll see how things develop.