From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity)
Date: 1999/02/02
Date: 1999-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7982p8$nll$2@plug.news.pipex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78tlmt$jte$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
It's not a problem of semantics, but of compiler speed. Users are tolerant,
but they don't like it when the compiler hasn't finished by the time they've
got back from the loo ;-)
There will be some (rare) examples of code where searching a context for
valid interpretations will have to cover a very large number of possible
interpretations (the 'search space'). This could take a long time, and
disappoint the user as suggested above.
You could, of course, say to the user "don't use such weird code", but then
the user could always say "no, I'll just use somebody else's compiler!" :-)
Nick
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<78tlmt$jte$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
[...]
|What problem are you trying to solve, I don't see any
|problem in implementing the proper semantics here!
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-14 0:00 Fixed point multiplication ambiguity Marc A. Criley
1999-01-14 0:00 ` bob
1999-01-14 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-15 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity) Nick Roberts
1999-02-03 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Garbage collection - was " news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-18 0:00 ` AdaHag
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Garbage collection - was Re: Building a compiler Samuel Mize
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Garbage collection - was Re: Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity) Steven Hovater
1999-02-20 0:00 ` A Modest Defense of ACT (though they are big boys and can take care of themselves) Steve Quinlan
1999-02-21 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-21 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Dave Taylor
1999-02-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` GC+HC for GNAT/GCC (was: Building a compiler) Nick Roberts
[not found] ` <m33e4jvs1n.fsf@muc.de>
1999-02-06 0:00 ` GC+FSD for GNAT/GCC Nick Roberts
1999-02-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Building a compiler Nick Roberts
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Fixed point multiplication ambiguity robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity) robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Fixed point multiplication ambiguity robert_dewar
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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