This VCL compiler thing...

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <ujrmzfyfs1o.fsf at cat.linpro.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>> Finally I have decided to enforce proper types and units throughout,
>> so if you compare a time variable, you must specify the units:
>>
>> 	if (obj.ttl < 10m)
>
>Excellent.  I thought about this, but forgot to mention it.  It gives
>us all the advantages of Hungarian notation without any of the
>disadvantages (such as having to use Hungarian notation) :)

:-)

>> The compiler so far is 900 lines of C-code and a 170 line tcl script
>> to generate some C-code for keyword recognition.
>
>I imagine the Tcl script will be replaced with lex/yacc at some point?

My plan was to run the tcl script by hand and check both the script
and the result into the tree.

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