Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens

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From: Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 14:25

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Stephen P Spackman:
   I'd been charitably assuming that you'd fixed this nighmarish
   notation. Of COURSE you aren't showing us any examples of actual
   function definitions - much less nested ones - they're totally
   illegible!

I showed examples.  I don't think they were illegible.

   Worse than that, using strings for function bodies is going to
   wreak merry hell with your scoping rules, isn't it? Or does : get
   dynamic access to the static context, meaning that functions in
   general need to know the actual source names of all their local
   identifiers?

I'm not sure what you're asking here.

But, while I'm thinking of it: I oversimplified by calling them
strings.  Lists of strings, and character matrices may also be used.

I should note that, in general, most programming languages use some
form of text to represent programs in that language.  If you're trying
to make a generalization about languages which use a textual
representation for programs, keep this in mind.

-- 
Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell                   <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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