Syntactic experiments with arrays of functions and operators

  • Authors:

  • J. Philip Benkard

  • Affiliations:

  • Staff Programmer, Sub-Products Logistics Systems, International Business Machines Corporation, Dept 828 / Bldg 938, P. O. Box 950, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

  • Venue:
  • APL '84 Proceedings of the international conference on APL
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

The syntactic binding hierarchy of Benkard is refined to produce a numeric table. This table has been used by Bunda and Gerth to implement a syntactic model of APL2. The model is extended to include new classes of objects and strands of objects other than data. Directions for syntactic development are suggested, tending toward a language which achieves flexibility by nesting simple levels in a remarkable parallel with nested arrays. Cautious experimentation with models such as this one is urged before firm extensions are made to the language.