Chapter 7. DSL infrastructure with Rhino DSL
In this chapter
- Understanding DSL infrastructure
- Rhino DSL structure
- Common DSL idioms
- Batch compilation and caching
By now, you’ve heard about Rhino DSL several times. I keep saying that it’s a library that makes building DSLs easier, but I’ve never gone into the details. This chapter will address that omission.
We’ll go over Rhino DSL in detail and see what it has to offer and under what circumstances you might want to roll your own DSL infrastructure instead. This chapter isn’t intended to replace API documentation; it’s intended to review what a DSL infrastructure should offer and how Rhino DSL measures up.
To be clear, you don’t need to use Rhino DSL to build DSLs in Boo. Rhino DSL is ...
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