Re: [stack] Why is point-free form so interesting?

John Carter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:

> John Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Christopher Diggins wrote:
>> Is there a representation of a program where the mechanism of moving
>> parameters to values in expressions is...
>>    * Explicit (ie. Can be reasoned about / transparent on inlining)
>>    * Trivial (Adds almost nothing to the code / vanishes in
>>      this representation)?

> Stack notation is NOT the simplest possible data transfer notation; it
> imposes a total ordering on data, when often a partial ordering is
> sufficient.

Any pointers to candidates for the "simplest possible data transfer notation"?

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