Message from discussion EXCLUDE Statement

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From: bren...@netcom.com (Brenda Holloway)
Subject: EXCLUDE Statement
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 14:04:17 GMT
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In preparation for implementing *my own* INTERCAL interpreter, I've been
thinking about ways to bring this language into the '90's... make it safe
and sane for a more urbane crowd.

I mean, this thing doesn't even know about FILES! The Standard Library
is just sort of assumed to be there, but it makes it very hard to add
functions.

So, how about an "EXCLUDE" statement? Usually INTERCAL includes all the
standard files, EXCLUDE would tell which labeled lines NOT to include, so
that they might be overridden by the INTERCAL program.

EXCLUDE {label-list} 
{label-list} :: {label} | {label}+{label-list}

Anything else I shoulf think about adding?

Brenda