Re: [stack] Stack Shuffling Operator Mnemonics

Christopher Diggins <[email protected]> wrote:
> The next logical step then seems to be to simply drop the "-", and use
> the library defined "abac" function that I proposed.

How many of those functions do you want to type in by hand? Which ones
are you skipping?

> Now you don't
> have to change the syntax of the language at all, which seems to be a
> huge plus.

Most consideration of languages breaks the syntax into two parts: a
lexer and a parser. The parser is the complex part. This change
addresses only the lexer.

I also don't see how refusing to change a language's syntax is a "huge
plus". I don't even see it as positive -- lack of change is a zero,
not a positive.  If we're dealing with something that can break
compatibility, the change itself could be negative, but that's not the
issue here.

> Christopher Diggins

-Billy