Re: Topicalizers as user-defined extensions

2002-02-28 Thread Allison Randal
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:28:29PM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: > > --- Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hmm... Out of curiosity what kind of user-extensible topicalizer > > aware constructs would you make? > > Remember Larry's comment that the -> operator is a kind of "parame

Re: Topicalizers as user-defined extensions

2002-02-28 Thread Allison Randal
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:30:00PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: > > Hmm... Out of curiosity what kind of user-extensible topicalizer aware > constructs would you make? I'm envisioning something along the lines of: while parsing a file, you have a C loop through the file and a series of subrouti

Re: Topicalizers as user-defined extensions

2002-02-28 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allison Randal wrote: > > Garrett Goebel wrote: > > > > > > I guess the next question in the context of the following is: > > > > > > Larry Wall wrote in Apocalypse 4: > > > > > > > > It should be possible to make user-extensible syntax look > > >

Topicalizers as user-defined extensions

2002-02-28 Thread Garrett Goebel
Allison Randal wrote: > Garrett Goebel wrote: > > > > I guess the next question in the context of the following is: > > > > Larry Wall wrote in Apocalypse 4: > > > > > > It should be possible to make user-extensible syntax look > > > just like built-in syntax. > > > > How would I create a user-