17 Dec
2020
17 Dec
'20
8:44 p.m.
On 12/17/20 9:21 AM, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
...My knowledge of A68 comes from reading the official definition back in
the day. It took effort to see the clarity of the design through the
fog of the description. Until more accessible descriptions came along
(which I admit to not having seen) it would have been a big barrier to
acceptance...
By coincidence, fortune brought this up as I opened a terminal window:
No proper program contains an indication which as an operator-applied
occurrence identifies an operator-defining occurrence which as an
indication-applied occurrence identifies an indication-defining
occurrence different from the one identified by the given indication as
an indication-applied occurrence.
-- ALGOL 68 Report
Yikes...
Mike