On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:30:50 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:

> It's also something with pitfalls, for, if editing into the compiled
> code may take several steps in different parts of the source which would
> be incompatible with each other and hence cause a compilation error!
>
Thats exactly why it may be a good idea to bear the edit requirements in
mind when designing the language.

For instance a design using line numbers and single line statements
should be fairly bulletproof even for incremental compilation, especially
if line numbers automatically control statement sequence (unlike some
BASICS!) and each statement corresponds to a chunk of position-
independent code thats independent of the code in adjacent statements,
but a block-structured language probably can't be made to work that way.
As others have said, if this is the way you'd want to language to work,
it suggests quite strongly that automatic variable creation combined with
BASIC or Perl-like variable type annotation would be useful.


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