Re: [relax-ng-comment] Re: Attribute grammars

[David Rosenborg <david.rosenborg@pantor.com>]

MURATA Makoto wrote:

> Compactness and readability are different.  I find the current notation 
> very painful to read, since no type information is provided for 
> synthesized values. The current syntax achieves compactness  by not providing
> useful information for readers.  Semantic attribute names of attributes grammars
> make this away more readable.

Yes they are different aspects, though in my opinion the current
syntax is readable and also compact. A good combination.
But it's probably a matter of taste. Much like some people prefer
reading dynamically typed LISP to statically typed Java.

Cheers,
David