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by memling
1618 days ago
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> Maybe you can answer a question I've had about ASN.1. Long time ago, Marshall Rose had harsh things to say about the ASN.1 macro facility like "buried semantics"[1]. Do you know what he meant? My guess is that his complaint is that MACRO semantics are not well defined and are challenging to parse with conventional compilers. I've always wondered if they were inspired in some part by LISP, since you could in principle translate them fairly readily. ROSE and SNMP are still relatively commonly-used specifications that embed macro definitions, and most of the work I've seen done with them involves actually hard-coding the output (rather than actually parsing the MACROs). |
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