Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: noweb

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hi Bill,

... noweb modifications ...

> The bottom line here is that I agree with Norman that
> modifying noweb's behavior is not the correct solution
> and that if anything it should be more exact and strict.

Actually, I did not say that I want to modify noweb in any way.
To me it was only not clear enough how noweb should behave in such
situations.

Unfortunately, the website http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/ is not
very explicit about pointing to a nice documentation that describes the
semantics of all the various situations where << and >> can appear
(non-escaped) in a simple and understandable manner. (At least such a
link is not very obvious to me.) I would have to get the noweb sources
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/dist/ and figure out which of the
many files I have to weave in order to find the right documentation. :-(

In fact, that documentation situation is very much like in Axiom. All
files are literate programs, but it is hard to find a rough overview of
the building process, for example.

I hope an extended ALLPROSE (http://www.hemmecke.de/aldor/) will some
day remedy this situation. I'm not yet there, but I am working on it.

All the best

Ralf