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From: kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What the compiler CAN do for you
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.043046.10281@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 04:30:46 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.042434.9601@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) writes:
>Why resort to idioms?

To answer my own question -- I guess if I called them `lemmas' the use
of some commonly-occuring patterns in a given programming language is
obvious. Such lemmas _could_ be generated automatically (although
non-trivially I think) given some basic stats from a structure-oriented
editor and the language grammar.

-kym