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Parsing distfix operators
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 29 ,  Issue 2  (February 1986) table of contents
Pages: 118 - 122  
Year of Publication: 1986
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Simon L. Peyton Jones  Univ. College London, London, UK
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

The advantages of user-defined distfix operators—a syntactic convenience that enhances the readability of programs—can be obtained as an extension of almost any programming language without requiring dynamic changes to the parser.


REFERENCES

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R. M. Burstall , D. B. MacQueen , D. T. Sannella, HOPE: An experimental applicative language, Proceedings of the 1980 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming, p.136-143, August 25-27, 1980, Stanford University, California, United States  [doi>10.1145/800087.802799]
 
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Johnson, SC. Yacc-Yet another compiler compiler. Tech. Rep. 32. Bell Laboratories. Murray Hill, N.J.. 1975. Gives a complete description of Yacc. together with some nontrivial examples.
 
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Turner. D.A. The Sasl manual. Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, England, 1983. A reference document.

CITED BY  2
Arthur I. Baars , S. Doaitse Swierstra, Typing dynamic typing, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.37 n.9, p.157-166, September 2002
Annika Aasa , Kent Petersson , Dan Synek, Concrete syntax for data objects in functional languages, Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming, p.96-105, July 25-27, 1988, Snowbird, Utah, United States

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: SASL
      D.3.4 Processors
          Subjects: Parsing


General Terms:
Design, Languages


REVIEW

"Ralph Walter Wilkerson : Reviewer"

A distfix operator is a syntactic construct in which an operator symbol is distributed among its operands. Consequently, prefix, infix, and postfix operators are just special cases of distfix. Some functional programming languages, such as Hope,  more...

Collaborative Colleagues:
Simon L. Peyton Jones: colleagues

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