Re: [stack] function/object ambiguity + quotation alternative

Chris Double <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Stevan Apter <[email protected]> wrote:
> if i can remember what i was thinking at the time, it was
> something like this: i want to be able to put naked functions
> on the stack. but i also want to be able to evaluate them
> once they're there. so reinterpret 'i' to mean 'move to the
> queue'.

This is one of the features I like about XY.That function objects are
executable using 'i' just like quotations. It's a feature that has
been discussed to be added to factor occasionally, that of making word
objects callable (ie. make call a generic that works on quotations and
words).

Chris.
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