Re: RPN maps to basic mathematic expressions nicely

Marcel Hendrix wrote:
> "cr88192" <cr88192@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes Re: RPN maps to basic mathematic
expressions nicely
> 
> [..]
> 
>> so, IMO:
> 
> [..]
> 
>> more traditional syntaxes (C or Pascal like), are a lot better for
human 
>> editing, primarily because they offer abstraction, use visual
associativity 
>> (rather than structural associativity).
> 
> [..]
> 
>> I will assert that a more C or Pascal style syntax allows greater 
>> readability.
> 
> You mean, like the attached?
> 
> -marcel
> 
> ==
============================================================================================================
> static int xxmatchReg (int orclear, char * regex, char * string, int
ofs, int length, struct tagrefcnt * ref) {
> atomtype atom;
> char * or;
> int retn;
> char p1, p2;
> char cnot;
> int initlength = length;
> 
>     if (orclear == 0) {
>         p1 = 0;
>         cnot = 0;
>         for (or = regex; or[0] != '\0'; or++) {
>                  if (or[0] == '{' || or[0] == '[' || or[0] == '(') p1++;
>             else if (or[0] == '}' || or[0] == ']' || or[0] == ')') p1--;
>             if (or[0] == '|') {
>                 if (p1 == 0) {
>                     or[0] = '\0';

   ...

:-)

Jerry
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