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

John Nowak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 7, 2009, at 3:32 AM, spir wrote:

> Le Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:24:13 -0500,
> John Nowak <[email protected]> s'exprima ainsi:
>
>> Your point about naming it and being able to refer to it is confused.
>> Even if you define 'square', you still need to use quotation to  
>> form a
>> new function that pushes the 'square' onto the stack. It is not the
>> same as giving the name for a function in Scheme and getting that
>> function back as a result. You're explicitly creating a new function.
>
> Isn't this issue implementation choice?

I'm talking about the semantics of the language, not the implementation.

- John
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