Re: A proposal to restructure our top-level syntax

On 12/8/07, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Innovimax SARL writes:
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> > Henri,
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> > I find your proposal very appealing, but the fact of loosing recursive
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> > Can we lighten this behaviour ?
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> The rest of that message [1] fixes this . . .

You can also write a pipeline with a declare-step step in it that contains
the recursive portion.  The the simplest version is a pipeline document that
invokes the 'main' step.

That would avoid having to make pipeline libraries invokable just to make
recursion work.

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--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics