hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) (08/04/89)
This is a respones to an article from Marv Rubenstein (sp?), [sorry, rn barfed with "interp buffer overflow" when I tried to do a real followup]. >Note that it is not hard (as compiler writing goes) to build a compiler which >when given: > > if > ((expr)<0) <statement-list> > ((expr)=0) <statement-list> > ((expr)>0) <statement-list> > fi How do you tell the expression from the statement when an expression is a statement in C? Sure you could follow the statement with ';' but that could be a long way to look ahead to determine which you were looking at. --John