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Article #874Re: Anyone want to design a language?
From: Ge' Weijers
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 16:49
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 16:49
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peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>We can put it back later. Let me be a literal minded language purist for a
>while. A good macro facility (like lisp's) that works within the syntax
>of the language can be used to put it back...
>macro "for(@?initial; @?test; @?final) @body"
>{
> @if(?initial) @initial;
> while(@if(?test) @test @else true) {
> @body;
>1: @if(?final) @final;
> }
>2:
>}
Wow: STAGE2 rising from the grave. (STAGE2 was a macroprocessor that could
process multi-line macros. It was written in itself towards an assembler)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!kunivv1!ge From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language? Message-ID: <1186@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 15 Mar 90 16:49:32 GMT References: <22569:05:10:24@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <8475@wpi.wpi.edu> <24123:04:14:07@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1966@l.cc.purdue.edu> <191@gollum.twg.com> <78=1NPDxds13@ficc.uu.net> <16136@haddock.ima.isc.com> <SB52.P2ficc@ficc.uu.net> Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lines: 24