Interesting DSLs, Implemented in Scala? [closed]

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I've seen BASIC and Apache Camel DSLs in Scala, and they're just fantastic. Any more examples of such DSLs?

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You have a good source in the MEAP (Early Access) book

DSL in action from Debasish Ghosh (blog: "Ruminations of a programmer)

Testing frameworks like scalatest are classic examples of DSL:

  test("pop is invoked on an empty stack") {     
    val emptyStack = new Stack[String]
    evaluating { emptyStack.pop() } should produce [NoSuchElementException]
    emptyStack should be ('empty)
  }

There are many others DSL-based frameworks out there:

• specs: "Behaviour-Driven-Design framework"

• internal DSLs

• Squeryl: "A Scala ORM and DSL for talking with Databases with minimum verbosity and maximum type safety"

    def songCountByArtistId: Query[GroupWithMeasures[Long,Long]] =
      from(artists, songs)((a,s) =>
        where(a.id === s.artistId)
        groupBy(a.id)
        compute(count)
      )

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lift-json provides a DSL to generate JSON. For example the following DSL:

("person" ->
  ("name" -> "Joe") ~
  ("age" -> 35) ~
  ("spouse" ->
    ("person" ->
      ("name" -> "Marilyn") ~
      ("age" -> 33)
    )
  )
)

creates the following JSON:

{ 
  "person": {
    "name": "Joe",
    "age": 35,
    "spouse": {
      "person": {
        "name": "Marilyn",
        "age": 33
      }
    }
  }
}

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ScalaModules is a DSL for working with OSGi.

Another one is available with Apache Camel a platform for enterprise integration.

Scala-Query and Squeryl also provide DSLs for querying databases among other things.

ScalaTest is also an awesome example of what is possible.

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Two good examples are the built-in DSLs for Parser Combinators and Actors. There is a SQL wrapper called DBC (not yet ready), here you can see how it looks like: http://scala.sygneca.com/libs/dbc

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XML in Scala is another example.

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The ScalaQL paper (PDF) describes the implementation of an interesting DSL for language integrated database queries.

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And then there's Foursquare's Rogue http://engineering.foursquare.com/2011/01/21/rogue-a-type-safe-scala-dsl-for-querying-mongodb/