Re: [stack] Is this language concatenative?

Michael Nedzelsky scripsit:

> It seems to me (I can be wrong here),  that already Joy is not _entirely_ 
> concatenative because of quotation. I think the quotation as basic operation 
> has the same status as concatenation.

Joy does not have quotation as such.  It does have literal lists, but whether
a list is executed or not depends on the surrounding program.  Furthermore,
whatever can be done with literal lists can be done without them:
[a b c] is equivalent to this flat program:

	"a" intern "b" intern "c" intern cons cons

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