Re: [stack] Re: Some thoughts on Object Cat

Christopher Diggins scripsit:

> These two approaches are not incompatible. There are two equally valid
> semantic views of a Joy program: compose all functions then apply the
> resulting function to the empty stack, or apply each of the functions
> to the stack in sequence.

Indeed.  It's the mark of a concatenative language that eval is compose
followed by apply, but that doesn't mean that eval *is* apply except in
the degenerate case where there is only one function to compose.

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