Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom meeting at ISSAC

[Stephen Wilson]

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
> (1) Which, of course, are untrue.

The SPAD parser/lexer is line oriented, which means it does not
incrementally parse user input by design.

The SPAD parser drops column information after the lexical stage (see
PARSE-NewExpr).  

The AST is not documented.  Moreover, it is ambiguous.

The system is not extensible or flexible by any rational
measurement.  


> (2) And, as expected, your questions were rhetorical.

Of course they were.  I was trying to explain the work I am doing and
you effectively dismissed it by saying "you dont need to wait for a
new compiler", which is not true.  Moreover, I feel my work has
advantages which are visible not only to developers but users as well.

I will be more than happy to discount your autoconf patch when it is
ready based on the fact that we already have a build system which more
or less works,  if your interested in that kind of collaboration.

Take care,
Steve