Re: [stack] disallowing recursive definitions

On 29/2/08 7:39 AM, "John Nowak" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Recently, I mentioned that if you disallow recursive definitions, then
> definitions can be thought of as macros or rewrite rules.
> 
This encourages me to ask a question about Forth which I have been
too shy to ask. I¹ve read a number of times that recursion was not
allowed or not easy to do at least in the earlier versions of
Forth. I explained this to myself like this: the colon definitions are
just macros, and the macro expansion is very simple.

Was I right about the early Forths? Was is the current situation?

I was very impressed by the current discussion in this topic.

  - Manfred

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