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Subject: Re: Ganapathi's code generation
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 11:32:00 EST
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Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
Denotational semantics is easy and natural for Lisp hackers, since it's
all objects and functions.  A corollary is that it gets hairy for Lisp
when one starts doing destructive ops and nonlocal jumps, so formal
definitions of Common Lisp are hard to find...  Stoy's book is a good
one, although some dislike it because it's not sufficiently precise...

Can anyone refute my gut feeling that attribute grammars are a kludge?
I've never found a really solid justification for their existence...

							stan shebs