Neat, I wonder if this idea could be developed into a more refined programming experience where you you spend time in the imperative world by default and only express some iterations as logic puzzles to be solved like this.
I've actually seen this usage pattern in the practical usage of logic programming libraries. Common Lisp's Screamer [1], for instance, or Clojure's less-mature core.logic [2].
Though to be fair, both of these libraries are in Lisp languages, which inherently support the design pattern of slipping into/out-of DSLs.
Minikanren/Microkanren (which is what core.logic is based off of) actually works really well as library in most languages. Nothing about it really requires macros to be easy to use, just higher order functions.
BeautifulSynch|2 years ago
Though to be fair, both of these libraries are in Lisp languages, which inherently support the design pattern of slipping into/out-of DSLs.
[1] http://nikodemus.github.io/screamer/ [2] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic
slaymaker1907|2 years ago