Meta-syntactic programming with Racket: string interpolation

Re:Meta-syntactic programming with Racket: string interpolation by elibarzilay on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:54PM (#14257614)

You could have used the scribble reader (the @-expression syntax, not to be confused with the full documentation system). But you'd also then find that there is a more robust way to get what you implement with a simple definition:

    #lang at-exp racket
    (require racket/date)
    (define s string-append)
    (displayln @s{Current date&time: @(date->string (current-date) #t)})

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Re:Meta-syntactic programming with Racket: string interpolation by klibertp on Friday May 05, 2017 @10:21AM (#14273614)

Yes! This is why I chose to use #@ instead of @, to avoid conflict with at-exp reader. As noted below by moron4hire, the @-exp reader is the better solution for this problem. I concentrated on providing an example of how to extend the reader, not on making an example of a useful or needed extension. I should have probably written this on top of the post...

Anyway, thanks for reading!

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