Re: Example interpreter C

Laurence Finston <lfinsto1@gwdg.de>
14 Sep 2005 21:18:17 -0400

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From: Laurence Finston <lfinsto1@gwdg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Sep 2005 21:18:17 -0400
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: 05-08-055 05-08-062 05-08-073 05-08-084 05-09-025 05-09-036
Keywords: design, OOP
Posted-Date: 14 Sep 2005 21:18:17 EDT

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Ivan Boldyrev wrote:


> Do you mean Python-like behavior? Modern Lisp dialects (Common Lisp
> and Scheme) do require variables declarations.


I haven't programmed in Common Lisp in several years, but this
is the behavior I was referring to:


      GCL (GNU Common Lisp) Version(2.2.1) Thu Jul 17 11:34:27 MET DST 1997
      Licensed under GNU Public Library License
      Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter




      >(setq a "a")
      "a"


      >(setq a 1)
      1


      >(setq a 3.24)
      3.2400000000000002


I don't know whether this has been changed in more recent versions.
I don't think anyone at the computer lab here programs in Common
LISP, so they haven't bothered to update. However, I think making
this behavior invalid would break a lot of code.


I often write throwaway programs in Emacs-Lisp, which shows
this behavior.


Laurence Finston

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