david-gudeman

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   by david-gudeman 12y ago

   An interesting take. I've always been something of a programming-language junkie motivated by the feeling that there must be clearer, better ways to express things. Classp was motivated in large part by my dissatisfaction with having t
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   by david-gudeman 12y ago

   There are precedence indicators to describe precedence (BTW, this is needed for formatting as well as parsing). The details are too complicated for a reply, but they are in the language manual.
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   by david-gudeman 12y ago

   Well, the language of class patterns can be read naturally in either direction--parser or formatter--much like a grammar can be read as a recognizer or a generator. And in fact there are features in the class patterns that really only apply
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   by david-gudeman 12y ago

   By "logical structure" I mean the AST. I make this clear in the rest of the document. The point is, with Classp you don't have to write a grammar to create a parse tree and then convert to an AST; you write a specification th