Re: [stack] Is this language concatenative?

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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Manfred Von Thun scripsit:

> ³1² intern ³2² intern ³3² intern ³4² intern [] cons cons cons cons
> produces a nice looking list of what seem to be integers.
> But now try: [dup*] map
> 
> ³Anna² intern ³Bob Charles² intern ³Donald²  intern [] cons cons cons
> produces a nice looking list of what seem to be four names.
> But now try: reverse

Common Lisp solves this problem by printing such weirdly-spelled
symbols either as \1 and Bob\ Charles or as |1| and |Bob Charles|.

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