A Program Feature for CONVERT

A program feature has been constructed for CONVERT, closely modeled after the similar facility found in many versions of LISP. Since it is functional or operational in nature, it has been included as a skeleton form, together with a number of related operator skeletons. This Memo describes them, and...

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Main Authors: Guzman, Adolfo, McIntosh, Harold
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5903
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Summary:A program feature has been constructed for CONVERT, closely modeled after the similar facility found in many versions of LISP. Since it is functional or operational in nature, it has been included as a skeleton form, together with a number of related operator skeletons. This Memo describes them, and also the RUL mode, which allows the user to specify arbitrary components of a pattern as the result of a computation performed while the matching process is taking place.