Re: [stack] stOck

John Nowak <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:23:03 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:10 AM, William Tanksley wrote:

> spir wrote:
>
>> Hello concatenators,
>> I would like to exchange about possible drawbacks of a data stack and
>> a weird idea on a possible replacement. Maybe all of this is not new,
>> sorry if ever, but I could not find references.
>
> One question: How does this differ from any other semi-concatenative
> language's support for "local variables"?

His proposal is equivalent to dynamic scoping. Locals in Factor are  
lexically scoped.

- John