Re: RM and abstract syntax trees
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:24:32 -0000
Message-ID: <1193887472.502254.261020_at_v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:24:32 -0000
Message-ID: <1193887472.502254.261020_at_v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 31, 5:29 pm, David BL <davi..._at_iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Nov 1, 7:23 am, Tegiri Nenashi <TegiriNena..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So? What power Lisp gives you in the realm of languages and grammars?
>
> I don't understand you. My point is that Lisp doesn't expect you to
> name the subexpressions because the underlying implementation
> allocates cons cells and use pointers to represent the structure.
I think it would be fair to say that LISP provides enormous benefits to processing languages and grammars, provided your syntax is exactly S-expressions. I am not being sarcastic here.
Marshall Received on Thu Nov 01 2007 - 04:24:32 CET