On 12/5/07, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > But, in this specific case, the layout rule in the Spad > Syntax amounts to nothing close to 2 dimension. It is > purely a 1-dimensional thing.
? But you said that it involved "lining up" - something that is inherently at least 2 dimensional. > There isn't even anything that I would consider > `serialization' -- and I've written a Boot parser and a > Spad parser in C++ over the last 6 months in my > spare time. Granted the "serialization" in this case is intentionally very simple and it does involved counting leading whitespace in each line. Such a process is used in the Aldor compiler for example to convert from #pile notation to the bracketed form prior to conventional parsing. > ... Regards, Bill Page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
