[talk] lex start conditions.

[Pete Wright]

On 10/28/20 6:44 PM, R. Clayton wrote:
> It's van Wyk's thesis work under Knuth on Ideal, a constraint-based little
> language for describing pictures, so I'm guessing it's from whatever they had
> going at Stanford in the late '70s.  I'm hoping it's a common-knowledge idiom
> that has subsided into obscurity over time, and I'm trying to find long-timer
> who will look at it and say "Oh yeah, that...".

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