From: trans. (T. Onoma) <tra...@ru...> - 2004-09-11 11:33:29
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On Saturday 11 September 2004 07:10 am, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > The phases and their names as we used them are: > > - "cooking". MUST be done by the parser. Fullfils TAG directives. > > - "completion" (what we called "resolution" or "specification" or > "implicit typing"). Computing the tags for nodes that have no tag. > > - "binding" (we never used this name explicitly, but I'll adopty Sean's > terminology here). Mapping each tag to a native data type. > > - "construction" (the final step of "loading", and hence sometimes > simply called "loading"). Creating a native data object whose type is > the one specified by the tag (via the "binding"). Good to get the terms straight. Actually, I have been using "resolution" to generally mean binding (or completion + binding), and loading to be the whole of it. Sorry, about that confusion. (Note to self: Get terms defined up front!) I prefer specification to completion, BTW. -- ( o _ // trans. / \ tra...@ru... I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. -Mark Twain |