Re: [stack] What does "concatenative" actually mean?

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> > "hello world"
>
> Maybe a bad example.
>
> Can you demonstrate how to read a line from a file and echo it to the
> user?
>
>
you cannot.
i've complete eradicated files :)

instead you have to feed the file to the interpreter as an argument.

that said, enchilada doesn't need files.
it has a more elaborate (distributed) storage system that is  
referentially transparent.
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> Constructing a quotation from a file is another story. You're talking
> about referential transparency; replacing an expression with its
> *value*. I'm talking about replacing an expression with a name for
> that expression.
>
you are right.
to construct a quotation from a file you first need to evaluate the  
file primitive.

- robbert