Re: [stack] Re: Concatenative Research

Justin scripsit:

> Agreed! Quotations should be opaque, functions should be unable to
> gauge the depth of the stack, and functions should be unable to discern
> anything about the parts of the program following them.

*sigh*

The minute anyone gets a hold of the Joy model, the first thing they ditch
is the beautiful code/data duality.  It is IMHO part of the essence of
Joy that you construct lists-as-code with the same mechanisms you use
to construct lists of any sort, and the stack is just another list.
(Lisp/Scheme tries to allow the former, but issues around lexical scope
make it impossible in the general case: syntax objects are not lists
and symbols.)  Sacrificing that beauty to the fashionable model of static
typing strikes me as just sad.

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