From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26843 invoked by alias); 18 May 2010 14:52:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 26834 invoked by uid 22791); 18 May 2010 14:52:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 May 2010 14:52:45 +0000 Received: from int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.17]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4IEqhg3028670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:52:43 -0400 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4IEqg2f024237; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:52:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF2A9B9.9050605@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:52:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Design Considerations of GIMPLE Front End References: <4BF2ACD1.1040107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BF2ACD1.1040107@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-05/txt/msg00329.txt.bz2 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.