Re: Precedence values for Reverse Polish

Robert A Duff <world!bobduff@uunet.uu.net>
25 Nov 1999 01:50:43 -0500

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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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