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

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> Nonetheless I'm starting to see your point in this language, I think.
> Every function takes and produces one datum, which is a tuple.
> Meanwhile, a literal tuple is also a function of one argument, and that
> argument will be passed to all of the components of the list.
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> Conceptually, the big difference between this and a stack-based language
> -- if I'm reading it correctly -- is that this language uses a data tree
> rather than a data stack. That's fascinating!

this is starting to look/sound like enchilada.

robbert?

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> So how do nodes of this tree get constructed? I can see that once
> they're constructed your language can pass them around and generate new
> trees (or, equivalently, mutate the existing tree), but I don't see how
> to express a cons.
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>> - John
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> -Wm
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