Library like "infix"...

[Blake Watson]

Hello,

I've got a situation where I want to allow users some modest calculation ability, and I've gone through various evolutions of possibilities, like letting them put in raw Clojure code (that I will restrict at some point), to (heh) using POI to let them use Excel to specify possibilities (which is WAY overkill), to using infix. 

https://github.com/rm-hull/infix

This is basically what I want, only expandable. I have some reservations, however:

1. It's no longer maintained.

2. It uses the author's own homegrown parser.

3. The comparator operators don't seem to work.

4. There's no function for "I can't calculate this because I don't know the value of X."

All of this is surmountable, of course. The question is, should I surmount it? Or should I just start with Instaparse and a calculator grammar. Or is there a third way?

===Blake===

[Justin Smith]

unless this is an exercise in learning clojure, why not use an existing calculator parser? eg. https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs164/sp05/ta/calculator/Parser.java for a random example found with a quick google

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[Blake Watson]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:18 AM Justin Smith <noise...@gmail.com> wrote:

unless this is an exercise in learning clojure, why not use an existing calculator parser? eg. https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs164/sp05/ta/calculator/Parser.java for a random example found with a quick google

That is the question, yes. There are at least a dozen in Clojure and dozens more in Java, which I hadn't actually thought of using. But most of them are at about the level of what you linked, which doesn't, e.g., include functions. I think I'd prefer to avoid using a Java based one, because I may well have to extend it and I'd rather not have Java code in my Clojure projects. (I don't even want Java in my Java projects!)

However, Mr. Hull has been quite responsive. I think when he marked it as "not maintained" he really just meant "I'm not actively developing new features." So I think it's the most promising route for now.

===Blake===