5001 - drop the :(scenario) DSL

I've been saying for a while[1][2][3] that adding extra abstractions makes
things harder for newcomers, and adding new notations doubly so. And then
I notice this DSL in my own backyard. Makes me feel like a hypocrite.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743#13570092
[2] https://lobste.rs/s/to8wpr/configuration_files_are_canary_warning
[3] https://lobste.rs/s/mdmcdi/little_languages_by_jon_bentley_1986#c_3miuf2

The implementation of the DSL was also highly hacky:

a) It was happening in the tangle/ tool, but was utterly unrelated to tangling
layers.

b) There were several persnickety constraints on the different kinds of
lines and the specific order they were expected in. I kept finding bugs
where the translator would silently do the wrong thing. Or the error messages
sucked, and readers may be stuck looking at the generated code to figure
out what happened. Fixing error messages would require a lot more code,
which is one of my arguments against DSLs in the first place: they may
be easy to implement, but they're hard to design to go with the grain of
the underlying platform. They require lots of iteration. Is that effort
worth prioritizing in this project?

On the other hand, the DSL did make at least some readers' life easier,
the ones who weren't immediately put off by having to learn a strange syntax.
There were fewer quotes to parse, fewer backslash escapes.

Anyway, since there are also people who dislike having to put up with strange
syntaxes, we'll call that consideration a wash and tear this DSL out.

---

This commit was sheer drudgery. Hopefully it won't need to be redone with
a new DSL because I grow sick of backslashes.

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/016dilated_reagent.cc b/016dilated_reagent.cc
index 1d89ba8d..1354ba45 100644
--- a/016dilated_reagent.cc
+++ b/016dilated_reagent.cc
@@ -2,32 +2,47 @@
 //: grouped by brackets. We'll use this ability in the next layer, when we
 //: generalize types from lists to trees of properties.
 
-:(scenarios load)
-:(scenario dilated_reagent)
-def main [
-  {1: number, foo: bar} <- copy 34
-]
-+parse:   product: {1: "number", "foo": "bar"}
+void test_dilated_reagent() {
+  load(
+      "def main [\n"
+      "  {1: number, foo: bar} <- copy 34\n"
+      "]\n"
+  );
+  CHECK_TRACE_CONTENTS(
+      "parse:   product: {1: \"number\", \"foo\": \"bar\"}\n"
+  );
+}
 
-:(scenario load_trailing_space_after_curly_bracket)
-def main [
-  # line below has a space at the end
-  { 
-]
-# successfully parsed
+void test_load_trailing_space_after_curly_bracket() {
+  load(
+      "def main [\n"
+      "  # line below has a space at the end\n"
+      "  { \n"
+      "]\n"
+      "# successfully parsed\n"
+  );
+}
 
-:(scenario dilated_reagent_with_comment)
-def main [
-  {1: number, foo: bar} <- copy 34  # test comment
-]
-+parse:   product: {1: "number", "foo": "bar"}
-$error: 0
+void test_dilated_reagent_with_comment() {
+  load(
+      "def main [\n"
+      "  {1: number, foo: bar} <- copy 34  # test comment\n"
+      "]\n"
+  );
+  CHECK_TRACE_CONTENTS(
+      "parse:   product: {1: \"number\", \"foo\": \"bar\"}\n"
+  );
+  CHECK_TRACE_COUNT("error", 0);
+}
 
-:(scenario dilated_reagent_with_comment_immediately_following)
-def main [
-  1:number <- copy {34: literal}  # test comment
-]
-$error: 0
+void test_dilated_reagent_with_comment_immediately_following() {
+  load(
+      "def main [\n"
+      "  1:number <- copy {34: literal}  # test comment\n"
+      "]\n"
+  );
+  CHECK_TRACE_COUNT("error", 0);
+}
 
 //: First augment next_word to group balanced brackets together.