Re: Questions on In Scope for INFORM


7 Apr 1995 04:16:18 GMT

In article <1995Apr5.150834.31021@oxvaxd>, nelson@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Mathematical Institute, (0865) 2-73525) writes:
|>
|> Actually, for me part of the fun of it was inventing all the algorithms.

Your users might perhaps appreciate lack of, er, surprising
behaviour rather more.

|> It was, though, a deliberate design decision to minimise (a) memory
|> usage and (b) C stack usage

You're going to need at least one stack somewhere to
handle nested statements, expressions, etc. Are you
*sure* you gain much by not using the C stack for
this?

|> Anyway, what do all these professionals know?

Well, for one thing we know how to write lexical analysers
that don't get confused by things like "[fred" versus "[ fred"!

You do have a lexical analyser in there somewhere...
don't you?

|> J. Meldrew (Miss)

Greg