Re: [stack] a concatenative language for the Semantic Web

On 5/22/07, William Tanksley, Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Good point about the stack.  Do your code fragments stand alone, or do
> they
> > communicate via the stack(s)?  (If they stand alone, then an enclosing
> "let"
> > expression could be used in Lisp to define temporary variables.)
>
> "let" defines bound variables; he's working point-free, which means he
> doesn't use them.
>
>
Thanks.  I get that.  It's as clear to me as if someone wrote "A hammer
drives nails, but he's using a screw driver, so he doesn't need nails."

My question "Do the code fragments stand alone?" is more at "Why use a
screwdriver?"

--Joe


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