Re: [stack] rewriting + second order vs. higher order expressivity

John Nowak <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not really sure what I'm asking here. Perhaps I'm just looking for
> a gut response to the C2R proposal. If anyone has any thoughts, I'd
> very much appreciate them. This is the last "big decision" for 5th
> before I can release something.

Well, you've got my sympathy... That's an unfortunate dilemma. It
looks like this model of a first-order language works very poorly with
concatenativity. It this purely a result of this model -- might it be
possible to partly solve this by other means?

I'm not coming up with any enlightenment. Forth solves this with a
full macro system, which is WAY too powerful. Would it be possible to
define some kind of pseudofunctional that can be called from inside a
functional to mean "lift a stack item into here"? My mind is rebelling
from this, so it's probably a really bad idea. I can't tell.

> - John

-Wm