Re: [stack] disallowing recursive definitions

Manfred Von Thun <[email protected]> wrote:
>  The upshot: have we in the concatenative world missed out
>  on something useful by not allowing parts to the smallest
>  programs. There is a lot one could and should discuss here,
>  but not me, not tonight.

We do already do that. All concatenative languages (except 01 :-)
support numbers, which are molecules by your definition. Most support
strings. Joy quotations are molecules whose component parts happen to
be a proper subset of Joy itself.

Of course, we could do more. I'm reminded of REBOL, which has some
interesting syntax that might be applicable (block modification).

>   - Manfred

-Wm