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- From: jarmo@ksvltd.fi (Jarmo Raiha)
- Subject: Re: Parsing mathematical functions.
- Organization: KSV Instruments ltd. Helsinki,Finland
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:21:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.052143.1124@ksvltd.fi>
- References: <1e25e1INN8sr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov15.174725.13958@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
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- >IMHO, the first thing you should do is give up on standard expression format,
- >unless knowledge of parsing techniques (like recursive descent) is common
- >among your students.
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- On the other hand, if you say that the function should be written in some
- programming language syntax, the whole problem collapses to a trivial one.
- The obvious solution then is to copy that line into a program template,
- compile it, and finally execute it.
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- Jarmo Raiha
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