16 Oct
2006
16 Oct
'06
3:31 p.m.
"Nicolas Frisby"
What if operator precedences were specified as a partial order instead of using numbers?
I suggested something that did that to fplangc back in 1987... Thu, 19 Nov 87 17:49:50 GMT in fact! Simon PJ later forwarded a message from Stef Joosten to similar effect... I made a more concrete proposal later and Phil Wadler tidied it up. I think It even got as far as a draft of the language, but I think it was decided that it was just too difficult (both for human and computer) to parse. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2006-09-13)