Re: [stack] Is this language concatenative?

"William Tanksley, Jr" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Nedzelsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But a quotation is not a member of T*, is it? Therefore it's not a
> > "simple program".
> It is a member if T*!
> T* means the set of all sequences of terminal symbols, and '[', ']' are
> terminal symbols.

Oh. Then no, I don't think your definition is adequate; it admits all
ill-formed strings, such as "]]]]a]]]". Your grammar can't be parsed.

> According to the description of the Joy syntax in
>  http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy/j09imp.html
> we have

We're defining concatenative languages in general, not Joy in specific.

> Michael Nedzelsky

-Billy
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