Re: [stack] Applicative Syntax == Concatenative Syntax

Christopher Diggins <[email protected]> wrote:
> We can define the open paranthesis, close paranthesis, and comma as follows:
>   define ( { }
>   define , { curry }
>   define ) { curry eval }
> This allows us to write:
>   Add(2, 3)
> Which leaves the value 5 on the stack just as we would like to see.

Clever and sneaky! I like it.

Of course, I should note that it's missing the main attraction of
applicative languages -- the ability to name parameters. But anyhow,
it's at least a great way to provide a bridge to a traditionally
applicative API, perhaps one that has more parameters being passed to
functions than it really should :-).

And that's _practical_.

-Billy