Re: SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>]

Just to clarify:

	The idea of a language-independent tree IR in which all side-effects
	are *_STMT nodes rather than *_EXPR nodes ("SIMPLE trees") sounds fine,
	but I don't think language front-ends should use that tree IR;
	instead they should generate a different form of tree IR
	which allows *_EXPR nodes with side effects ("INITIAL trees")
	and then some language-independent pass can convert from
	INITIAL trees to SIMPLE trees.

Is that what you all had in mind?

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