Re: Pronouns in programming language?

James Jones <jejones@microware.com>
3 Mar 2000 09:00:39 -0500

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From: James Jones <jejones@microware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Mar 2000 09:00:39 -0500
Organization: Microware Systems Corporation
References: 00-02-149
Keywords: design, algol60

Burroughs Algol, sort of anticipating assignment operators, provided
something like that, kind of an "ibid" :-). I don't have a manual
at hand, but I think an example would look something like


a[i, j] := * + x


where the * was the "ibid" operand.


James Jones


John Fremlin wrote:
> Has any programming language/compiler implemented pronoun like
> constructs?

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