[CSG111] Re: CSG111 MP5: Exercise 3 Clarification


Subject: [CSG111] Re: CSG111 MP5: Exercise 3 Clarification
From: Wendy (wendybeth.minton@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2006 - 17:35:35 EST


Hi,

As an FYI my partner and I discovered that block-statement does not work.
Also, is there really any need to define a new datatype, when expval->bool
exists, and provides the correct functionality?

On 3/5/06, Max Kubyshkin <maximush@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> I believe, true-value? comes from different definition for booleans, and
> used here instead of expval->boolean. It shouldn't take you much time to
> define this datatype. No contracts for datatypes.
>
> Max//
> PS: "This code is untested (sorry!), so it may contain bugs."
>
>
> Wendy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In statements.scm, what is the function true-value? Or better yet, where
> is
> > it defined, or do we have to define it? If we have to define it, what
> is
> > its contract?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Wendy
> >
> > On 3/4/06, Therapon Skotiniotis <skotthe@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:45:34PM -0500, Wendy wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am a little confused about what is being asked in number 3. As
> interp
> >> is
> >>> provided, I'm assuming the main goal here is to add the grammer. But
> do
> >> I
> >>> add to lang, or create a new lang-like file?
> >> Add.
> >>
> >>> If I add to lang, I've noticed
> >>> there are a few things missing and few things that will overlap There
> is
> >> no
> >>> addition, multiplication, or division in the language for the
> >> assignment,
> >>> but there is a Exercise 4.22 (its assumed to be in the grammer of
> >>> expression). I'm assuming we're ignoring these operatoins as we did
> last
> >>> time.
> >> Yes, + * etc. are easy to do. You've already done that before. Just
> work
> >> with -
> >>
> >>> as for the overlapping, grammatical elements such as if are already
> >>> defined as an expression. Are we to modify this definition, thus
> forcing
> >> if
> >>> to be a statement and not an expression. Is this correct?
> >> Yes. Make any modifications you need so that at the end your
> interpreter
> >> will implement the Statement language.
> >>
> >> -- Theo
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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