On 8/9/07, Weiss, Juergen wrote: > In principle metalex.lisp is used to generate fnewmeta.lisp > from fnewmeta.meta (and metameta.lisp from metameta.meta). > metameta.meta is a parser generator written in itself. The > grammar of the old parser (for the SPAD compiler) is > defined in the file fnewmeta.meta. > > Seems that someone did not like this setup and removed > some files. The remaining parts do not make much sense > anymore. So one solution is to eliminate the remnants, > the other to get the files from the archives (tar file) > and add some rules in the Makefiles. >
In http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomDevelopment "There is a third language used in the system called Meta. (Which is why meta.tar exists in zips). This code is not part of the bootstrap but needs to be at some point. Changing the meta parser (see metameta.lisp, fnewmeta.lisp, and metalex.lisp) would surely cause havoc. In the distributed system I replaced the Meta code with common lisp." ----- You probably know where my sympathy lies. I strongly believe that Tim is right: "This code is not part of the bootstrap but needs to be at some point." and I object to the continuing trend to reduce everything to Lisp. I think that meta is actually rather well documented (although the code in Axiom may not be). See: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1093415.1093417 META/LISP: an interactive translator writing system Source ACM SIGSAM Bulletin archive Issue 16 (October 1970) table of contents Pages: 10 - 18 Year of Publication: 1970 ISSN:0163-5824 Author R. D. Jenks IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/362896.362902 Referenced: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800204.806291 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/113447317/ABSTRACT http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/987508.987512 also in Jenks, R.D.: META/PLUS: The Syntax Extension Facility for SCRATCHPAD, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, RC 3259, New York, Feb. 23, 1971 Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
