There is a old computer language called APL. Could this be implemented in Scala as a DSL?
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There is a old computer language called APL. Could this be implemented in Scala as a DSL?
Someone could probably give a better answer than this, but this is my initial thought:
A Scala DSL should in theory be able to implement any programming language because it could build up an arbitrary structure representing the syntax, and then evaluate that.
A Scala DSL could not exactly replicate APL syntax for many reasons, one of which is that
‘single quotes’
can denote a string in APL, but not in Scala. Also (from the wikipedia page)
wouldn’t be valid Scala.
I don’t know how close you could get, though…