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Re: SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:05:31PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> Perhaps not, but for most of the other _STMT nodes it is perfectly
> reasonable to use them as expressions, and there are existing
> languages out there where such forms *are* expressions, including
> most languages in the Lisp family.
I don't care. For the purposes of the language-independant
tree nodes, expressions shall have no side effects. Transfer
of control is a side effect, and thus shall be a statement.
r~