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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Design Considerations of GIMPLE Front End
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF2A9B9.9050605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF2ACD1.1040107@gmail.com>

On 05/18/2010 04:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 18/05/2010 15:17, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> 
>> IMHO, ideally we would have a syntax that is human readable and human
>> writable. S-expressions are not as easy to read for me as something
>> that resembles C.
> 
>   I'd like it that way too, but I acknowledge that it would be more work and
> it's not me who'd have to do that extra work...

Well, it can always be changed later, but there's a lot to be said for
not spending time now writing a parser, and getting on with the project.
It's a matter of taste anyway.

Andrew.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-18 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17 20:21 Sandeep Soni
2010-05-17 21:04 ` Andrew Haley
2010-05-18  3:25   ` Sandeep Soni
2010-05-18  8:39     ` Andrew Haley
2010-05-18 13:18 ` Diego Novillo
2010-05-18 14:00   ` Michael Matz
2010-05-18 14:09     ` Diego Novillo
2010-05-18 14:18       ` Steven Bosscher
2010-05-18 14:46         ` Dave Korn
2010-05-18 14:52           ` Andrew Haley [this message]
     [not found]             ` <AANLkTilQWdLDrQypzwqbzTKsUYKyPKMvHMKVClFvZJWH@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-18 15:04               ` Diego Novillo
2010-05-18 15:24                 ` Sandeep Soni
2010-05-18 14:30     ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-18 14:32       ` Richard Guenther
2010-05-18 14:47       ` Steven Bosscher
2010-06-04  8:24 ` Sebastian Pop

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