On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Bill Page wrote: | | 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.
No, it isn't inherently 2-dimensional. What it means is that one starts a newline (in the 1-dimensional stream of characters), leave as much blank as on at the start of the previous line and continue. In a 2-dimensional setting, I go in all planar directions for writing my program -- think handwriting, ascii art output. | | > 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. I'm afraid you would have to detail what you call `serialization', because I don't see one. -- Gaby ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
