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Article #2373Re: languages which allow the introduction of new operators
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:32
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:32
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In article <1992Nov12.082643.8415@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:
>In article <TB06.92Nov11165010@CS1.CC.Lehigh.EDU> tb06@CS1.CC.Lehigh.EDU (TERRENCE MONROE BRANNON) writes:
>> >Lisp. Forth. Postscript. Smalltalk. Full PL/I had the ability
>> >to coin new statement types and keywords (though not new
>> >expression syntax).
>> You forgot Prolog.
>Add Ada, Algol68, TeX as well.
Some of these allow some flexibility in expression syntax. But how
many of these could conveniently unpack a floating point number into
its exponent and mantissa? In particular, could you write
exponent, mantissa =.U float
?
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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