Re: [stack] Parameters: ordered versus named

"William Tanksley, Jr" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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Christopher Diggins <[email protected]> wrote:
> A simple static type system has the disadvantage that typed terms will
> disallow unbalanced stacks. You can't say things like:
> if_tuesday [1] [1 2] ifte // does stack have one or two elements?

Correct. I hadn't intended to imply that static typing was bad; I was
just conceding his point that there are costs (no free lunch).

> - Christopher

-Billy
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