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Subject: Re: [Factor-talk] Furnace, XStreams (PEGs) and some observations
about Factor
On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Shaping wrote:
I'm hungry for local variables, now, though this goes against much of the
basis of stack languages. I want lexical forms I can read and understand
Maybe the dsl aspect could be viewed as applying a layer of sugar to the
stack based workhorse.
Somewhat, but it is much more than sugar. It is grease for the mind and
ironically traction too. Shuffling is fragile until you are fluent. Even
then it is work, and causes mistakes. It is not a
In context, I thought I was mentioning it after I had counseled you to try a
factor code-compile-test cycle that wasn't perfectly what you desired to
just get going and have fun. I just didn't want you to think I was trying
to shut down non-orthodox ideas - factor to me represents just the
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Shaping shap...@charter.net wrote:
I need to be able to write a parser in a
straightforward way (XStreams-style maybe) using a PEG (collection of BNF
productions) so that I can experiment efficiently with this idea. Does
anyone have any experience with PEGs in
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Subject: Re: [Factor-talk] Furnace, XStreams (PEGs) and some observations
about Factor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Shaping shap...@charter.net wrote:
I need to be able to write a parser in a
straightforward way
(PEGs) and some observations
about Factor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Shaping shap...@charter.net wrote:
I need to be able to write a parser in a
straightforward way (XStreams-style maybe) using a PEG (collection of BNF
productions) so that I can experiment efficiently with this idea
Maybe the dsl aspect could be viewed as applying a layer of sugar to the
stack based workhorse. You could easily have 'adjectives' that accumulate
into a variable, not on the stack, then a noun word that takes those options
and does the work. This is how I accumulate attributes for the HTML
On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Shaping wrote:
I'm hungry for local variables, now, though this goes against much of the
basis of stack languages. I want lexical forms I can read and understand
(parse with my mind, left-to-right, and down in a tree) to produce a known
result (not a best
