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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:12:27 -0700 (PDT)

    > From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>

    > I mean, it doesn't make much sense to try to extend tla in that
    > fashion.  You already have a good way to run extensions for tla: via
    > your shell.  Just name your script tla-do-foo, and poof, it's an
    > extension.  

Yup.

    > There's no obvious significant gain to pushing a
    > distinguished programming language into tla just so you can say "tla
    > do-foo".

That's not the issue.  `tla-do-foo' is fine -- I'm not concerned about
making that into `tla do-foo': that distinction is just sugar.

I am concerned about building up a nice framework in which to make
`tla-do-foo' easy to write and build upon.

-t





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