Re: [stack] function/object ambiguity + quotation alternative
Stevan Apter <[email protected]>
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i don't disagree. so in cat, what's on the stack after evaluating [dup]first? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Diggins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [stack] function/object ambiguity + quotation alternative >>> the evaluator would not abide naked functions on the stack; it would apply repeatedly until that was not the case. > > Then you have a first order language. I don't really see what that > buys you. Why not allow functions on the stack? It seems to me that > higher-order languages are only a positive thing. Joy and its ilk are > only interesting to me because they allow functions on the stack. >