Overview
This is an implementation of Clojure's reader in C.
It's got a relatively complete tokenizer, but is far from complete as a useful parser.
I'm publishing this source code in its incomplete form for two reasons:
- I don't have more time to work on it, right now.
- Rich Hickey published a spec for "EDN"
There is also the beginnings of a Ruby extension.
Design
The reader machinery uses a callback, rather than return values. This simplified the memory management strategy, allows for streaming readers to be implemented, and creates flexibility for language extension implementers.