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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: languages which allow the introduction of new operators
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- References: <veit.721491920@du9ds3> <TB06.92Nov11165010@CS1.CC.Lehigh.EDU> <1992Nov12.082643.8415@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:32:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.082643.8415@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:
- >In article <TB06.92Nov11165010@CS1.CC.Lehigh.EDU> tb06@CS1.CC.Lehigh.EDU (TERRENCE MONROE BRANNON) writes:
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- >> >Lisp. Forth. Postscript. Smalltalk. Full PL/I had the ability
- >> >to coin new statement types and keywords (though not new
- >> >expression syntax).
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- >> You forgot Prolog.
- >Add Ada, Algol68, TeX as well.
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- Some of these allow some flexibility in expression syntax. But how
- many of these could conveniently unpack a floating point number into
- its exponent and mantissa? In particular, could you write
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- exponent, mantissa =.U float
- ?
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