[LLVMdev] TableGen Operator Names

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:26 AM, David Greene wrote:
> I just submitted a change to TableGen to make the lisp-like operator
> names more readable (as suggested by Gabor a very long time ago).

Thanks for doing this!

> I would also like to change the way operators are invoked.  As I keep
> adding more functionality, the bang invocation syntax is making things
> hard to read.  For example:
> 
> !if(!empty(arg),then,else)
> 
> Does this mean "if empty," "if not empty" or "not if not empty?"  It's
> the first but that's less than obvious.
> 
> Would anyone object if I changed the syntax from !operator to &operator?

In the absence of a much better proposal, I'd prefer to just keep it the way it is.

-Chris