RE: [stack] Syntax for combinators

>When writing Joy programs with combinators, in about 95% of cases I seem to
>push the quotation parameters just before the combinator. Using the ifte
>combinator, a piece of program would look like this:
>
>[if-part] [then-part] [else-part] ifte
>
>The ifte combinator immediately removes the three quotations, and all other
>combinators do the same. Could one have a different notation?

The Forth-like notation you suggest is a step-backwards.  This is coming
from someone who has written a lot of Forth :)
 
I would like to see [if-part] replaced with a simple Boolean flag.  Is there
a reason it needs to be a quotation?  I believe it's a Boolean in Factor.

James