the mutant beast (was Re: Backtracking through the source)

2000-12-01 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
[Sorry for chiming in late here...] > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:02:31PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > I'm really thinking that the lexer, parser, and tokenizer can't be anywhere > > near as separate as we'd like. Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would *honestly* be my preferenc

Re: Opcodes (was Re: The external interface for the parser piece)

2000-12-01 Thread David Mitchell
Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would have wanted to limit the vtbl to self manipulation functions. > Set, get, convert, etc. Cross object operations would/should be > outside the realm of the object. (It seems like trying to lift yourself > by the bootstraps.) There is a certainly