From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/18
Date: 1999-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7pecjk$std$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.10.9908172116110.25744-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
In article
<Pine.BSF.4.10.9908172116110.25744-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> Yes, but Algol-68 didn't have a pseudo-variable for
representing the left
> hand side, and I haven't seen this approach discussed here. If
it was,
> please give a pointer of some kind to the thread.
The pseudo-variable proposal seems entirely horrible to me, and
indeed was not discussed at all. I can see all kinds of abuse
and very little gain from this syntactic vinegar :-)
The idea of the evaluation of the right hand side being tied
in semantically to the evaluation of the left hand side like
this seems quite nasty to me, a real confusion in the
fundamental semantics of assignment. Right now the semantics
attributes of assignment are purely inherited, and you really
want to keep things this way.
Maybe I missed something, but I did not see any significant
support for this particular notion, the discussion was almost
all about the much cleaner (though still fraught with
problems)+= type notation.
I consider a renaming to be much cleaner for a reader than
the use of your pseudo-variable (the latter is just syntactic
sugar/vinegar for the former presumably???)
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-15 0:00 C like op= proposal Brian Rogoff
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-20 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-08-19 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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