On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:59:57PM +0930, Alex Angas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just a quick question since I've been looking at how SCI scripts work. I 
> was wondering, how do we know that the source files had the grammar used 
> by Brian Provinciano's SCI Script Compiler?

They didn't have the exact same syntax. We do have fragments of
original SCI sourec code, courtesy of a few helpful insiders.

In particular, calls and sends work a bit differently - there are other
minor things as well:

(DrawPic(70)) in SCC was originally written as (DrawPic 70) - SCC's syntax
looks particularly awkward in conjunction with complex subexpressions.
 
(send Foo:bar(quux (+ quux 1))) was originally written 
(Foo bar: quux (+ quux 1)) - I'm not sure whether Brian's compiler
supports multiple sends at all. 

Lars

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