On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 09:00:23PM -0700, Tim Daly wrote: > Historically this change was introduced because of the Aldor compiler.
Well, this was desirable change to Spad language. Aldor was a new start, so it was easier to make change in Aldor first. But it was good change for Spad. > There was a clash of the use of the symbols. I had to rewrite code to > get Scratchpad (Axiom) and Asharp (Aldor) to work together. Yes. Around 1990 using symbol renaming was right thing to do, otherwise change would require too much effort. But we want to move forward... > > On Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 3:19:32 PM UTC-4 Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > > For many years internally Spad compiler and interpreter renamed > > '%' to '$' and internally used '$'. I have now commited a patch > > that disables this renaming so that '%' from source is internally > > represented by itself, without renaming. This should slightly > > simplify structure of Spad compiler and interpreter, but main > > gain should be in debugging: Lisp data structures should be > > more similar to Spad source, so easier to interpret. > > > > There is also related cost: patch touches a lot of places in > > interp subdirectory and potentially may introduce bugs. > > > > -- > > Waldek Hebisch > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/783e527c-5071-40b8-90f6-020623b4b07fn%40googlegroups.com. -- Waldek Hebisch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/20230423215746.rwhzeq4yntmqm336%40fricas.math.uni.wroc.pl.
