Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

John Nowak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Don Groves wrote:

> Exactly! So would you rather see the typical Pascal if-then-else
> statement or this:
>
> fun1 fun2 arg if-else
>
> where if-else is a function that examines arg, executes fun1
> if arg is true, executes fun2 otherwise, and cleans all three
> off the stack leaving the result of the appropriate function in
> their place?

To be honest, I actually prefer a prefix 'if'. Having to read past  
quotations to see what they do is unfortunate in my opinion.

- John
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