New parsing possibilities

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

I think a link to the discussion on the forum would be appropriate: 
http://qery.us/35v

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On 3/12/2013 14:59, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
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> I had started something trivial on the forum that has become very interesting. Not sure how many here also lurk there, so I thought I would bring it over.
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> Originally, I had commented that something like:
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> if x,y,z = 0 then beep
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> threw no error. That has evolved quite nicely into a parsing discussion, and it is worth looking at. It is currently at a stage where new capabilities are being discovered, since:
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> put 2*2,3*3=4,9  -- returns "true", or
> put 2*2,3*3 --yields "4,9".
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> There are undocumented rules here, for example:
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> put 2*2,3*3,(0=0) -- yields "4,9,true"
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> put 2*2,3*3,0=0  -- yields "false"
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> Implying that the comma delimited list is parsed as "2*2,3*3,0" = "0" and not as '2*2,3*3,0=0" yields some value as in the first case. Not sure how useful this all might be, but that is what they said about electricity.
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> Craig Newman
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