From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/21
Date: 1999-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908210916170.12939-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7pg9pr$aih$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article
> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908182033010.14398-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > > 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 :-)
> >
> > ROTFL!
> >
> > That little expression (syntactic vinegar) was the high point
> of a bland
> > day. Is that an original Dewarism?
>
> no, no, that's as old as programming languages as far as I know,
> certainly it dates back to the 60's .. :-) but i appreciate the
> ROTFL, anything to brighten up an otherwise dull day!
Well, I guess I'm showing my age! I remember certain expressions like
"the ratchet effect" (you can never remove language features) and
LALR parser generators as "all that stuff done in the 70's to make
parsers slow" as coming from you, don't tell me they're ancient too?
To bring it back on topic, the "op:=" like +:= is not just in Algol-68,
which is stagnant, but also used in Icon and its successor. So there are
living languages using this "vampire" notation :-)
-- Brian
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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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-08-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1999-08-19 0:00 ` tmoran
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 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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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