Re: [stack] disallowing recursive definitions

Manfred Von Thun scripsit:

> My analogy was with Unix pipes. Here each command (a molecule in my
> meaning) might consist of a primary command (an atom in my meaning))
> together with any (often optional) additional atoms. Some of these
> are additional parameters, some of these are command modifiers. None
> of these is a command by itself. The Unix pipe is a concatenation of
> such molecules.

But surely a molecule like "ls -l -C 2" is just syntactic sugar for
ordinary Joy "[-l -c 2] ls", where the list is treated by the "ls"
word as a list, not a quotation?

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