Re: [stack] function/object ambiguity + quotation alternative
John Nowak <[email protected]>
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On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:05 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Furthermore, by what I consider a bug in Joy, second-order functions
> will only handle lists of symbols rather than single symbols, so you
> cannot say "[1 2 3] "first" intern i" to get 1 on the stack.
I don't consider this a bug. The rule for 'i' is as follows:
[F] i -> F
Changing 'i' to also operate on symbols would complicate things.
Perhaps it's a tradeoff.
- John