DSLs in Boo

Chapter 5. Integrating DSLs into your applications

In this chapter

• Structuring and managing DSL integration
• Reusing DSL scripts
• Performance considerations
• Separating the DSL from the application

We’ve covered a lot of ground, but only at the micro level so far. We’ve talked about how to build a DSL, how to ensure you have a good language, what the design parameters are, and so on. But we haven’t yet touched on the macro level: how to take a DSL and integrate it into an application. Chapter 4 covered this at the micro level (building the languages themselves), but in this chapter we’re going to discuss all that surrounds a DSL in an application. We’ll talk about when and where to integrate a DSL, how to handle errors, how to handle dependencies ...