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

On Mar 7, 2009, at 5:48 AM, spir wrote:

> Le Sat, 7 Mar 2009 04:15:21 -0500,
>
> John Nowak <[email protected]> s'exprima ainsi:
>
>> Aye. This is why you should not use the same syntax for introducing a
>> new variable and updating a variable. I'm not quite sure though what
>> Python's design misfeatures have to do with quotation.
>>
>> - John
>
> At least, in both cases the programmer cannot express his  
> *intention* to reuse an already defined thing. I pretend, but may be  
> wrong, that a programmer who writes "[square]" means "use square's  
> definition", not "create a new func that simply happens to have a  
> single term, namely 'square'". In other words, the programmer  
> probably intends to refer to whatever is called "square" -- not to  
> build a new unnamed func. Again, I maybe wrong.

You're wrong. Not to be overly blunt, but I'd encourage you to use  
these languages a bit before guessing at these sort of things.

- John