Hi all,
I’m Piyush, a 3rd year undergraduate in Computer Science Engineering and am looking to participate in the GSOC 2017 with Scala. I’ve taken a look at this year’s project ideas and am interested in the “String interpolator for XML literals” project. I have some experience with functional programming in Scala provided via the Coursera course. I am actually looking for a good starting point to start my investigation into this project. Could anyone point me in the right direction 
Thanks!
Asking questions and showing some initiative and maybe even some experimental code before the mentors have to decide who to take on is the best first step :).
In terms of learning material, the coursera course is a good idea and exoerimenting with the Scala features you’d need for that project. It’s not my project, but I suppose you’d implement a macro and quasi quote backed string interpolator.
I’d recommend you learn about
- String interpolators http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/string-interpolation.html
- Quasi quotes http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/quasiquotes/intro.html
- macros (which has the steepest learning curve) http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html
You might be able to use scala meta instead of the existing Scala macros. You’d have to check with @xeno-by
You could also check out https://github.com/akhileshs/XML_Interpolator which is an earlier attempt at the same thing I think.
Chris
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