sfk@com.hp.hpl.hplb (Steve Knight) writes:
Aaron Sloman writes:
> All sorts of students and teachers are going to complain about this
> change. I think a dreadful design decision has been taken, in complete
> disregard of the needs of students and teachers, who are, at present,
> the main users of Pop-11, and are likely to be for the foreseeable
> future.
On the other hand, those of us at HP will breath a sigh of relief.
You might, Steve; but I've been using a define_form for yonks (``define
:proc'') which means that I've not had to worry about what the Pop11
parameter default is. What's more, it also allows me to write updaters as
define :proc v -> f(x) as ...
which is much more suggestive about how it gets used.
In the light of other comments in this exchange, I think I'll also update
it so that lvars are required to be defined when declared (and to use a
version of ``for'' that declares its index variables!).
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