Re: [stack] Stack Shuffling Operator Mnemonics

"stevan apter" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cowan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [stack] Stack Shuffling Operator Mnemonics


> stevan apter scripsit:
> 
> > and since something like -abac is syntactically illegal,
> > you can just extend the syntax to have it mean abc-abac.
> > 
> > waste not, want not.
> 
> How do you know what is *not* a stack shuffler?

the minimal case:  a symbol consisting of lowercase letters and
exactly one "-".

> 
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