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   Joachim Durchholz to Jeff Kenton   
   Re: "Circumfix" operators   
   13 Sep 07 07:45:19   
   
   From: jo@durchholz.org   
      
   Jeff Kenton schrieb:   
   > As for if-then-else, I wouldn't add them to expression parsing unless   
   > they are really valid in expressions, as they were in Algol or are now   
   > in Xpath.   
      
   That's indeed what I'm after.   
      
    > Otherwise, I'd use a recursive descent parser for most of the   
   > language and switch to operator precedence parsing just for expressions.   
      
   The goal is to have an all-operators language. Well, just syntactically,   
   so it's really going to be an all-operator-precedence language :-)   
      
   Regards,   
   Jo   
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