Spawn proposal strawman

[Brendan Eich]

On May 9, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> {op: "||",
>  left: {op: "||",
>         left: {op: "Id", value: "X"},
>         right: {op: "Id", value: "Y"}},
>  right: {op: "Id", value: "Z"}}
>
> A definitional interpreter the recursively evaluates nodes can  
> handle this easily enough, although the right-recursive AST  
> alternative, which is equivalent AFAIK, would be better for avoiding  
> recursion. A simple code generator, on the other hand, definitely  
> wants the right-recursive tree:
>
> {op: "||",
>  left: {op: "Id", value: "Z"},
>  right: {op: "||",
>          left: {op: "Id", value: "X"},
>          right: {op: "Id", value: "Y"}}}

Of course I got sleepy after cutting and pasting, and didn't edit the  
values ;-). That should be:

  {op: "||",
   left: {op: "Id", value: "X"},
   right: {op: "||",
           left: {op: "Id", value: "Y"},
           right: {op: "Id", value: "Z"}}}

/be