Experiences with an icon-like expression evaluation system

Laurence Tratt

doi:10.1145/1899661.1869640

Experiences with an icon-like expression evaluation system

Laurence Tratt

Middlesex University

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The design of the Icon programming language's expression evaluation system, which can perform limited backtracking, was unique amongst imperative programming languages when created. In this paper I explain and critique the original Icon design and show how a similar system can be integrated into a modern dynamically typed language. Finally I detail my experiences of this system and offer suggestions for the lessons to be learned from it.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	73-80
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES
Volume	45
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1899661.1869640
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010

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