Re: [stack] Is this language concatenative?

Michael Nedzelsky scripsit:

> I think you mean the following:
>        "a" intern "b" intern "c" intern [] cons cons cons

Yes, of course.  That comes of posting code late at night....

> But if any literal list can be constructed using only string literals,
> intern, [] and cons, then the subset of Floy in which the only quotation
> is empty list is already sufficient. Am I missing anything here?

Only a historical fact: that it was I who added intern to Joy's
primitive words when modifying the Joy interpreter to add
general gc, floating-point support, and files, and therefore
Manfred's papers don't reflect it.

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