From: Tayssir John Gabbour
Subject: Info on Moon's annotations?
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 19:38:29 +0000
Message-ID: <866764be.0405061138.5297e05a@posting.google.com>

Dave Moon had some ideas [1] about how s-expressions are a nonmodern
way to store code; he mentioned annotations would be nice. I think it
would be useful for things like IDEs to associate version control info
with code. Has anyone written a paper or talked about annotations?

Thanks for any pointers.


[1] http://www.archub.org/arcsug.txt

• Re: Info on Moon's annotations? Pascal Costanza
  • Re: Info on Moon's annotations? Tayssir John Gabbour

From: Pascal Costanza
Subject: Re: Info on Moon's annotations?
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 23:48:51 +0000
Message-ID: <c7eit4$8s9$2@newsreader2.netcologne.de>

Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:

> Dave Moon had some ideas [1] about how s-expressions are a nonmodern
> way to store code; he mentioned annotations would be nice. I think it
> would be useful for things like IDEs to associate version control info
> with code. Has anyone written a paper or talked about annotations?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> [1] http://www.archub.org/arcsug.txt

It seems to me that his suggestions are similar to what syntax-objects 
in some Scheme implementations provide. (But this is only a guess.)


Pascal

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From: Tayssir John Gabbour
Subject: Re: Info on Moon's annotations?
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 05:44:21 +0000
Message-ID: <866764be.0405082144.5c443d62@posting.google.com>

Pascal Costanza <········@web.de> wrote in message news:<············@newsreader2.netcologne.de>...
> Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
> > Dave Moon had some ideas [1] about how s-expressions are a nonmodern
> > way to store code; he mentioned annotations would be nice. I think it
> > would be useful for things like IDEs to associate version control info
> > with code. Has anyone written a paper or talked about annotations?
> > 
> > Thanks for any pointers.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.archub.org/arcsug.txt
> 
> It seems to me that his suggestions are similar to what syntax-objects 
> in some Scheme implementations provide. (But this is only a guess.)

Thanks, it appears from the plt scheme docs I could associate a UID
with every form in a codebase. One application that seems oddly useful
to me (though I don't yet know the use) is to have every macroexpanded
form associated with the form which expanded it. (macroexpand-1.)