Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kinnersley From: kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: concrete syntax (was: "off-side rule") Message-ID: <28205.27a45e48@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 28 Jan 91 23:24:24 GMT References: <4842@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <4167@osc.COM> <1932@alf.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 11 For all of those who've been saying that programming languages such as Miranda and occam, where leading whitespace is used in place of begin..end are difficult to implement, not context free, beyond the capability of lex and yacc, a crime against nature, etc... You might want to ftp to watserv1.uwaterloo.edu, and pick up the occam compiler there which uses lex and yacc, and see for yourself how really *trivial* it is to implement this feature! -- --Bill Kinnersley