Thanks for trimming to relevant sentences, excluding LISTSERV footers; a rare courtesy hereabouts.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:08:19 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: > >Ah! A case of RTFM. > Rather, scrutinize minutely and memorize TFM. You just happened to touch on a construct I had used. >One tends to get started using a tool without later going back and educating >oneself from the top down. > A more complete excerpt from <https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03027689/file/Lindsey_van_der_Meulen-IItA68-Revised.pdf>: Informal Introduction to ALGOL 68 C. H. Lindsey, S. G. van Der Meulen 0.0. Aims and methods Since ALGOL 68 is a highly recursively structured language, it is quite impossible to describe it until it has been described. So that you can read this Introduction without tying your own mental processes into a recursive knot, it has been laid out to a certain pattern, which we ask you to follow. Please, therefore, start by reading once or twice "Very Informal Introduction", in which we try to give a broad survey of what is in this language - mainly by the way of small examples and plain explanations. Aft~r that, we shall tell you what to do next. if you think you know it all already . then read (what to do next) comment Section 0.14 comment fi -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
