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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: BSI Syntax
Message-ID: <769@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 05:42:44 GMT
References: <227@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <227@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) writes:
> Ok, I'll take the bait!. Before I have to reply to a longer one :-)
> > 	(1) about half of the programs I have ever written would not be
> > 	    accepted by a BSI-compatible reader.
> I suspect the reason for this comment is the existence of various types of
> odd directives in his programs which are not catered for in the standard.
> 
As it happens, this is not the reason.  It simply didn't occur to me when
I was writing that particular message to think of directives at all.  I had
in mind ordinary clauses.