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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Semantic concept folding (neos update)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 21:55:37 -0500
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On 6/9/2025 8:08 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:50:36 -0500, olcott wrote:
> 
>> On 6/9/2025 7:45 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
>>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:38:34 -0500, olcott wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/9/2025 7:24 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
>>>>> neos (a universal compiler that can compile ANY programming language)
>>>>> update:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have just invented the concept of unstructured semantic concept
>>>>> folding whereby two concepts adjacent in the fold stack but unrelated
>>>>> in the AST can fold, e.g. language.function.signature ->
>>>>> language.open.scope = <create function>.
>>>>>
>>>>> /Flibble
>>>>
>>>> That you know what an AST is gives you some credibility.
>>>> Code generation from an AST is enormously simpler than the
>>>> back-patching method of the Dragon book.
>>>
>>> Obviously you don't quite know what you are talking about because
>>> generating code from an AST is not mutually exclusive with
>>> back-patching,
>>> I am doing both in neos.
>>>
>>> /Flibble
>>
>> I could never understand back-patching. With an AST I simply walked the
>> tree and generated the code.
> 
> It isn't that simple.
> 
> /Flibble

I still have the code that does this. It generates
jump code for "if" statements of arbitrary nesting
depth and Boolean complexity.

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