[viff-devel] Small VIFF language parser

[Martin Geisler]

Janus Dam Nielsen <jdn at brics.dk> writes:

> Den 15/07/2008 kl. 12.16 skrev Martin Geisler:
>
>> For single expression I guess not, but it should also work for
>> chains of expressions (when possible):
>>
>>   x = a * b
>>   y = a * c
>>   z = x + y
>>
>> If x and y are not used, then z can be computed as a * (b + c). Was
>> that already part of what you planned?
>
> Yes I have been thinking about this as well, but I currently this as
> an extension we can pursue when we know how to deal with a single
> expression.
> Even in such cases as above I guess that the size of expressions
> will be reasonable small. Lets see when we get some tests.

I think that sounds like the best thing to do.

>>> You should see my progress report to see what the SMCL language
>>> and compiler can do for you.
>>
>> I've printed the report and I hope I will have read it soon!
> Nice, at least one more gets read my report :)

I haven't gotten around to it yet, but it's in the pile... :-)

>> Have you ever put up the source (and repository) somewhere? The
>> nightly build linked from
>>
>>   http://www.daimi.au.dk/~fagidiot/simap/
>>
>> seems broken (as does many of the links on the blog...).
> They haven't been maintained for a year now...

Yeah, I see :-(

> I have an svn repository at daimi
>   /users/fagidiot/.SVNSMCL
>
> I believe you can read from there.

I can, I have now checked out the code. I'm not really sure what I
want to do with it yet, so don't hold your breath for my feedback :-)

-- 
Martin Geisler