[REBOL] Re: Expression evaluator (an example of parsing blocks)
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 22-Oct-2000 12:12
Hello Larry!
On 21-Ott-00, you wrote:
LP> PS I suspect it can be shown that with suitable rearrangement
LP> of terms and with both infix and prefix forms available, that
LP> parens are not needed.
Yup, but then again, why not using infix at all? If you're mixing
infix and prefix notation that way, you'll get less readability
than using prefix notation only.
My suggestion is: use infix notation with a lot of parens if
readability by the occasional reader is the priority; use prefix
notation (perhaps generating it with eval/translate :) when
code elegance is the priority.
Regards,
Gabriele.
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Gabriele Santilli <[giesse--writeme--com]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer
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