Arabbit.425 net.lang.apl utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!rabbit!ark Wed Apr 7 20:14:44 1982 The hardest part of parsing APL I think the hardest part of parsing APL is distinguishing +/[X]-Y from A[X]-Y The point is that you can't decide if the - is monadic or dyadic until you have seen past the [, which may be an arbitrary number of symbols away. Ick. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.