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Re: INP ("imcc's not parrot")

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From:
'John Porter'
Date:
August 22, 2002 04:55
Subject:
Re: INP ("imcc's not parrot")
Message ID:
20020822075406.A32384@nomad.starpower.net
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> The intent ultimately 
> is that you hand an AST, and potentially some rules, to IMCC and it 
> creates bytecode for you from it.

That's different, then.  Then the whole issue of syntax goes away.
Unless the data interchange format is textual; but even then, you'd
want a syntax highly tuned for tree structures (and other things),
and the current syntax doesn't sound like it fits this criterion.

-- 
John Douglas Porter


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