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

On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:38 AM, John Nowak wrote:

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> On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Don Groves wrote:
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>> Exactly! So would you rather see the typical Pascal if-then-else
>> statement or this:
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>> fun1 fun2 arg if-else
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>> 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?
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> To be honest, I actually prefer a prefix 'if'. Having to read past
> quotations to see what they do is unfortunate in my opinion.

I guess I don't consider reading past anything, I just start from
the right.

We use Arabic numerals, why not Arabic reading order.
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don


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