Auto-capturing

2002-06-05 Thread Luke Palmer
I just read through A5 (wow, that's long), and I agree with most of it. Some of it's really cool. Here's what makes me uneasy: The fact that a grammar rule auto-captures into a variable of its name. Is this efficient? If I'm writing a syntax-directed translator, I usually don't need to

Re: Auto-capturing

2002-06-05 Thread Damian Conway
Luke Palmer wrote: I just read through A5 (wow, that's long), and I agree with most of it. Some of it's really cool. Here's what makes me uneasy: The fact that a grammar rule auto-captures into a variable of its name. Is this efficient? If I'm writing a syntax-directed translator, I