Xref: utzoo comp.lang.misc:1501 comp.lang.c:9673 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!aiva!ken From: ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Block Closure Message-ID: <369@aiva.ed.ac.uk> Date: 25 Apr 88 14:49:23 GMT References: <2853@enea.se> <2400014@otter.hple.hp.com> <918@rlgvax.UUCP> <757@l.cc.purdue.edu> <732@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <748@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Reply-To: ken@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Ken Johnson,E32 SB x212E) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Lines: 17 Keywords: BOXER jefu@pawl14.pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam) writes: >In a nice bitmap oriented editor, blocks might be indicated by >drawing lines around the block,... The MIT Media Lab developed a language called `Boxer' which does precisely this. The basic unit is the proceudre, analogous with a Lisp function. The procedure is represented by a box. To loop, etc, you enclose the box inside the box that represents the procedure you are writing. The editor does not have to be bitmap-orienbted, though it probably is. You do not need any function that is not available through Termcap. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, The University, EDINBURGH Phone 031-225 4464 ext 212 Email k.johnson@ed.ac.uk