Re: First impressions of the specification

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First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (22 Mar 2013 06:32 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Alan Manuel Gloria (22 Mar 2013 09:23 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (22 Mar 2013 12:49 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification John Cowan (22 Mar 2013 13:52 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (22 Mar 2013 21:58 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (23 Mar 2013 02:12 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (25 Mar 2013 00:07 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (26 Mar 2013 04:20 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (26 Mar 2013 05:07 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification John Cowan (26 Mar 2013 08:48 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Alan Manuel Gloria (26 Mar 2013 09:03 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification John Cowan (26 Mar 2013 09:28 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (26 Mar 2013 12:04 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (26 Mar 2013 13:13 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (26 Mar 2013 05:08 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (26 Mar 2013 21:49 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (27 Mar 2013 01:43 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (27 Mar 2013 03:49 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (27 Mar 2013 05:24 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Alan Manuel Gloria (27 Mar 2013 07:30 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (27 Mar 2013 13:01 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Alan Manuel Gloria (28 Mar 2013 02:20 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (28 Mar 2013 02:45 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (27 Mar 2013 21:31 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification Mark H Weaver (30 Mar 2013 16:12 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler (30 Mar 2013 18:15 UTC)

OT: Formatting Lisp code from the command line (was: First impressions of the specification) John Cowan (30 Mar 2013 21:13 UTC)

Re: OT: Formatting Lisp code from the command line Mark H Weaver (30 Mar 2013 21:36 UTC)

Re: OT: Formatting Lisp code from the command line John Cowan (30 Mar 2013 21:45 UTC)

Re: OT: Formatting Lisp code from the command line (was: First impressions of the specification) Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin (31 Mar 2013 18:11 UTC)

Re: OT: Formatting Lisp code from the command line (was: First impressions of the specification) John Cowan (31 Mar 2013 19:26 UTC)

Re: First impressions of the specification David A. Wheeler 22 Mar 2013 21:58 UTC

Mark H Weaver:
> I'm sorry to say that I find that
> section extraordinarily unclear.

I wonder - would it be better if we rewrote the spec using the
BNF as a template?  That would at least make it easier to
follow the BNF that follows, and since the BNF actually
implements the notation, it's clearly formal enough :-).

--- David A. Wheeler