Distribute Parse Trees, Not Bytecode

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 mzukowski@bco.com wrote:
> 
> To do any real analysis you will want an AST which gives you an easy to
> manipulate structure which is uncluttered by things already implied in the
> tree structure such as closing braces and parens.

[+] Yes, you are absolutely right: an AST is what i had in mind.
My use of the term "parse tree" was inaccurate.  The runnable
distribution format i am proposing for E is the signed abstract
syntax tree, much like (i believe) the tree which the current E
interpreter actually uses to run the code.


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