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| Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish nerd@freeuk.com (Nerd) (1999-10-31) |
| Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (1999-11-02) |
| Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish ppaatt@aol.com (1999-11-02) |
| Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (1999-11-03) |
| Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish ppaatt@aol.com (1999-11-05) |
| Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (1999-11-18) |
| Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish world!bobduff@uunet.uu.net (Robert A Duff) (1999-11-25) |
| From: | Robert A Duff <world!bobduff@uunet.uu.net> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1999 01:50:43 -0500 |
| Organization: | The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA |
| References: | 99-11-026 99-11-034 99-11-094 |
| Keywords: | design, comment |
Our esteemed moderator writes:
> [Bliss treated all names as quoted and you had to defereference everything
> explicitly. It was a major pain in the neck. -John]
True, but that's mostly because of lack of type checking. Typing the
extra dots shouldn't cause carpal tunnel syndrome! The problem was
that a missing dot caused unending debugging sessions.
- Bob
[That's the pain in the neck I meant. The lack of types was a minor nit
compared to getting all of those deference dots in the right places. -John]
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