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From: stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman)
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Subject: Re: Multi-compilers
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Date: 23 Sep 90 23:56:27 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk's message of 23 Sep 90 17:11:45 GMT

It turns out that you can get pretty generally extensible syntax in a
programming language without using macro expansion at all, and
probably without impairing efficiency significantly. Everything has
clean formal semantics - my current notation is both semantically and
syntactically like a very much cleaned up Algol68.

I'm supposed to be writing a paper about it at this very moment, but I
seem to be goofing off :-). When I saw this thread I couldn't help
commenting.

(No, I'm not going to post a full description because then I *surely*
won't finish writing this stupid thing up. I'm already bored to tears
:-).

stephen p spackman  stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu  312.702.3982