Comment on Strangest Programming Language Feature?Comments−protomyth12yThe control structures in Icon are not quite what you would expect and qualify as strange: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)−raldi12yI don't see what you mean; could you spell it out?−protomyth12yI thought the wikipedia article could explain it better than I, but here are some more references:http://blogs.kde.org/2006/10/21/ralph-griswold-icon-language...http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=104659http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69724/tr-99-64.pslook at Goal-directed evaluation of icon
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The control structures in Icon are not quite what you would expect and qualify as strange: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)
I don't see what you mean; could you spell it out?
I thought the wikipedia article could explain it better than I, but here are some more references:
http://blogs.kde.org/2006/10/21/ralph-griswold-icon-language...
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=104659
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69724/tr-99-64.ps
look at Goal-directed evaluation of icon