Jose E. Marchesi: SUPPER, a “modern” stropping regime for Algol 68

A draft of a proposed GNU extension to the Algol 68
programming language has been published today at https://algol68-lang.org/docs/GNU68-2025-004-supper.pdf.

This new stropping regime aims to be more appealing to contemporary
programmers, and also more convenient to be used in today's computing
systems, while at the same time retaining the full expressive power of a
stropped language and being 100% backwards compatible as a super-extension.

The stropping regime has been already implemented in
the https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Algol68FrontEndGCC Algol 68 front-end and also in the Emacs a68-mode that provides full automatic indentation and syntax highlighting.

The sources of the godcc program have been already
transitioned to the new regime, and the result is quite
satisfactory. Check it out!

Comments and suggestions for the draft are very welcome, and would help
to move the draft forward to a final state. Please send them to algol68@gcc.gnu.org.

Salud, and happy Easter everyone!

Source: Planet GNU