Abstract forms

[Richard Carlsson]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:

> However, there is a problem: if I try to compile a function with guards, I 
> get an error from the compiler saying "illegal guard expression". It works 
> fine to compile it as usual... Any idea why?

Not sure. Do you mean guards that you have constructed yourself, or guards
as found in the beam file?

> Then there is a more general observation: it's not at all easy to
> navigate the abstract forms in order to make changes... compared to
> Lisp, anyway, because there everything is a list, here the structure
> is heterogenous...

Yes, that's a big bother. You could look at my syntax_tools package under
http://www.erlang.org/user.html - it makes the "abstract form" look like a
homogeneous syntax tree structure.

	/Richard

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