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Re: Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Toon Moene wrote:
> Diego Novillo wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> >
> > > It's easier for each front end to generate GENERIC than it is to
> > > generate SIMPLE, because GENERIC is more expressive and has less
> > > constraints than SIMPLE.
> > >
> > Thanks. That makes sense.
>
> Where's GENERIC documented ? Is this something the g95 developers should
> know about (I'm seeing the name for the first time) ?
>
I don't think it's documented anywhere. I saw them first
mentioned by Jason as a working name for language-independent
trees that do not have the strict structure imposed by SIMPLE.
Diego.