Re: gnubol: subsets

[Tim Josling <TIMJOSLING@prodigy.net>]

You are right. The complexity, though,  comes with alignment and size of binary
(comp), floating point (comp-1/2) etc, which is not evident on the surface. I
think this will need to be handled in due course by a 'configure' type program.
Initially it will be a ".h" file with a bunch of constants.

Could you expand on what you mean by syntax, semantics etc? I know what those
terms mean to me but not to you. Like with the 'parentheses'. I think you were
talking about bracketing statements and clauses not just terms in expressions, but
I only realised that after a while.

Tim Josling

RKRayhawk@aol.com wrote:

> ...
> I would say that it is reasonable to suggest that we _should_ be aware of
> machine like factors.  We should be able to sense size in syntax. One
> dividing line might be to pass the problem to semantics only if SYNCH is
> involved (that would be within one or more of the sub elements in the group
> being redefined or being defined as the redefinition). Our list may be larger
> than just two possibilities here, but if the REDEFINES does not involve
> SYNCH, syntax could easily post it to semantics as already checked.
> Bob Rayhawk


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