Re: [stack] things

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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spir scripsit:

> By the way, I have another issue with "code is data". Code is always
> valid data -- but is the converse statement true?

Yes, at least in Joy; any list may be executed.  Joy has a runtime
feature to decide what to do when an unknown symbol is executed; by
default nothing happens, but if the feature is selected Joy will report
an error and jump back to the REPL.

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John Cowan  [email protected]   http://ccil.org/~cowan
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under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
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