Re: [stack] Meta-combinators?
"William Tanksley, Jr" <[email protected]>
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John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > The more general problem is how to construct a combinator which can > > curry all arguments for any given function. Stated differently the > > challenge is to write a function which can compute the number of > > arguments or number of results of any given function. > I think that can be done in Joy provided that the program doesn't > use any of the small number of Joy words with variable stack effects. And is very careful with loops, conditionals, and recursion, OR is written in a way that allows the parser to determine when it halts and that it always halts. The latter condition makes me shudder. > A mosquito cried out in his pain, John Cowan -Billy