Re: Pronouns in programming language?

"Ben Zorn" <zorn@microsoft.com>
6 Mar 2000 00:28:08 -0500

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From: "Ben Zorn" <zorn@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Mar 2000 00:28:08 -0500
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
References: 00-02-149
Keywords: design

Todd Proebsting and I have written a tech report describing a number
of possible programming shorthands (including pronouns). The TR is
available at:
http://research.microsoft.com/scripts/pubs/view.asp?TR_ID=MSR-TR-2000-03


For example, we propose a pronoun that abbreviates the following:


a.b.c.d.e = x+y;
a.b.c.d.f = x+z;


as:


(a.b.c.d).e = x+y;
$().f = x+z;


where $() is the pronoun referring to the last parenthesized expression.


-Ben Zorn



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