PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WITH EXTENSIBLE SYNTAX

摘要

The subject disclosure relates to an extensible syntax for a scripting language that allows data intensive applications to be written in a compact, human friendly, textual format, and also according to self-defined syntax within the data intensive applications so that a single compilation unit of a program can support multiple syntaxes. An extensible syntax is provided for M that allows alternate syntaxes to be defined in line and then used in the program so as to accommodate user-defined syntaxes and other pre-existing domain specific languages. In one embodiment, the alternate syntaxes can be defined at pre-designated functional points in the program.