[tools] Add S-Expression Output Type to rlparser - #5943
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S-Expressions are a simple file format that has been around since the 1950s. They consist of nested lists surrounded by parenthesis. The source code of LISP family languages like Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Racket, or Emacs Lisp are represented using S-Expressions.
They are a good candidate for a raylib api output format because they are extremely simple to write a parser for, and all lisp family languages have built in functionality for parsing and manipulating S-Expressions, so they are a good choice for a data exchange format.
You could also change the file extensions and flags to
LISPinstead ofSEXPR, but I wanted to convey that the output is just data, not lisp code.I chose to only use the most basic of S-Expression syntax so that the output would be mutually parsable by different lisps. (ie no
(dotted . lists)no common lisp:keywords)