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From: James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling expressions
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On Jan 3, 9:33 pm, James Harris <james.harri...@gmail.com> wrote:

A small correction was needed, as follows, as I had omitted the loop-
out condition.

> function value_parse(op1)
>   v1 = value() //identifier or literal
>   while true
>     op2 = current token or dummy end of expression
>     if lparen //parens of a function call or similar
>       v1 = args_parse(op2)
>       consume rparen
>     else if prec(op2) > prec(op1)
>       if incompatible(op1, op2)
>         raise "incompatible - grouping parens needed"
>       v1 = node(POSTFIX_OP, v1)
    else
      break
>   return v1

James