Re: [stack] Properties of Concatenative langauges and Forth

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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Christopher Diggins scripsit:

> Talking about data-flow in the context of Joy is incorrect. A Joy
> program has no data, only functions. You'll see what I mean below.

Well, sort of.  5 is a number in Joy, even if it's a function too.
As a function, it can be applied to the stack; but if it's on the stack,
it can be added to another number by the function +.

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