Re: [stack] A bit more about Catenate

Hi Billy,

Yes, I've read Baker's papers and they obviously affected my thinking
about languages.

Thanks for the tip on the other topic.
--
Don



On Aug 16, 2007, at 19:57 , William Tanksley, Jr wrote:

> Don Groves <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I haven't considered the idea of two functions wanting to index  
>> the same
>> array but that doesn't sound like something I'd need to do anyway, at
>> least it's never come up for me before ;-)
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> If the functions need to do that sequentially, there's no problem --
> you pass the reference to the first function, then the second
> function. If they need to operate in parallel you have to make a copy.
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>> There still may be serious problems I haven't foreseen with my  
>> approach,
>> I'm no expert in all this and there's a lot of learning as I go
>> along. Kinda what makes it so much fun!
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> Obviously you've read your Henry Baker,
> http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ForthStack.html (I cite this for the
> benefit of others interested). He explains how linear logic works and
> why it insists on only one reference per object.
>
>> Don Groves
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> -Billy
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