From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...)
Date: 2000/10/06
Date: 2000-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dale-D7C4D3.07571407102000@news-server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8rkq27$c44$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> The point to realize here is that this feature in GNAT
> duplicates the full semantics and also somewhat the syntax
> of another complex language (SNOBOL-4). You cannot expect
> to begin to understand code using this feature without putting
> in the effort to learn this language (which is not trivial).
> The 20 page tutorial in g-spipat.ads is a bare introduction
> to the language, but is only that. To fully use this feature,
> if you are not familiar with SNOBOL-4, you probably need to
> read some other SNOBOL-4 materials :-)
I didn't have a problem with the Snobol part, (although i find
the use of 'Unrestricted_Access can make spitbol code a bit ugly);
it was the full package name syntax, and the strange formatting
that i found hard to cope with.
Dale
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-05 0:00 gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) bumwad
2000-10-06 0:42 ` gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) dale
2000-10-06 0:00 ` gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) Robert Dewar
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
2000-10-07 0:25 ` gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) Ted Dennison
2000-10-06 3:14 ` gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) Ted Dennison
2000-10-06 0:00 ` gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) Robert Dewar
2000-10-07 0:00 ` gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) Georg Bauhaus
2000-10-07 0:00 ` gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) Georg Bauhaus
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