Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-07-22 Thread Josef Moellers
Martin Gregorie wrote: Are you sure about that? I used Algol 60 on an Elliott 503 and the ICL 1900 series back when it was a current language. The term "thunking" did not appear in either compiler manual nor in any Algol 60 language definition I've seen. A60 could pass values by name or value

Re: Regular expression use

2007-08-25 Thread Josef Moellers
Nick Maclaren wrote: > For reasons that I won't explain, as they are too complicated > and not terribly relevant, I am interested in discovering what > people actually use regular expressions for. Not the subject > domain, but the construction of the regular expressions. > > I know about computer