Encode requests using Grammars

[rawleyfowler]

Right now requests are encoded very naively, we can use grammars to make this better.

[masukomi]

Are you suggesting using a grammar to replace

get('/', -> $request, $response {
    $response.html('<h1>Hello World</h1>');
});

so that it isn't something that LOOKS like a function body but is actually just a param passed to a function?

Because if so I am 100% in support of this.

[rawleyfowler]

@masukomi
Yeah I would like to make some sort of slang or grammar to do that

[rawleyfowler]

Obviously the current way will still have to exist to keep backwards compatibility.

[masukomi]

Obviously the current way will still have to exist to keep backwards compatibility.

this is early enough that i don't think it's bad to break backwards compatibility. a) there's hardly anyone using it b) it was pretty clear it was very early stages c) they can just pin it to the old version if it matters to them.

I don't think it's worth maintaining tech debt indefinitely for such a small number of users and actual instances of the code in action.

[rawleyfowler]

I'm thinking that maybe the grammar can translate to the current scheme. We'll see though. Still pretty up in the air on how we should approach this.