... Just like lists in Lisp and Scheme, Joy's quotations can be used in place of structs. In fact quotations are far more powerfull and flexible than structs. ...
Hello, all, I downloaded and compiled the joy sources for Mac OS-X. The only trouble was with the gc (Boehm's, correct?): it didn't recognize Mac OS-X. This...
... It is indeed Boehm's. If you wouldn't mind, please snarf http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc6.0.tar.gz and replace the gc instance...
Hey Alan, and readers on concatenative ... ... Hmm... I have little real experience with FORTH, but my understanding is this: there are 3 main differences...
Brent Kerby
iepos@...
Jun 18, 2002 9:30 pm
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... understanding is ... (you can ... casts) whereas ... syntax; as far ... To an extent. Forth allows you to push the execution token of a word onto the stack...
... Not entirely - because C is typeless only conservative garbage collectors work with C (and same goes for Forth). They can only free a block when it's...
... True ... Maybe I was being a bit simplistic. I appreciate your interesting comments. ... Interesting work; I look forward to seeing it. I hope someday to...
Brent Kerby
iepos@...
Jun 19, 2002 3:40 am
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As promised, I did finally finish the article about the theory of concatenative combinators, or in other words, what you get when you reduce Joy down to its...
Brent Kerby
iepos@...
Jun 20, 2002 3:25 am
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Thanks to Brent Kerby for his concatenative combinators article, really excellent. I was thinking: "unit" and "cat" are kind of like _dynamic_ equivalents of...
Joel Kelso
chiral@...
Jun 20, 2002 3:34 pm
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... Interesting; I bet this could turn out to have some significance. Here's some random thoughts regarding inverses: - buryn is the inverse of dign, and vice...
Brent Kerby
iepos@...
Jun 20, 2002 5:25 pm
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... Were you aware of the other "Meta X" languages when you chose the name? That is, Meta II and Meta III are languages used in (old) compiler writing systems...
Stephen J Bevan
stephen@...
Jun 24, 2002 5:49 am
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On a related topic, given the simple stack based nature of the Joy language, and that every node on the stack can be assigned a type, can anyone tell me if...
... The stack is a stack any time that user code looks at it, but it is common within the interpreter to pop things off the stack, invoke interpreted code, and...
Hi, ... The following relates not to Joy but to a similar langauge of my own ("Monkey"). It's mostly the same but with some different types, modified syntax...
... can ... in ... As I was saying I feel that garbage collector in a functional Forth- like language (like Joy) isn't neccessary considering that destruction...
... Right. Note that strongForth is compile-time typed and polymorphic, whereas Joy is runtime typed and not polymorphic (although it has RTTI). ... Of course...
... Correct -- Joy has polymorphic words. Joy itself isn't polymorphic, but rather provides RTTI and the ability to branch on that information. It's not...
om While I'm pleased that my "forthski Vs. Joy" inquiry generated such a healthy discussion, I am disappointed that it doesn't seem that the question was...
Dear friends As you know from my last posting, I have been on a long once-in-a-decade holiday. Now I am back at work, and will respond to the concatenative...
Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Jul 9, 2002 1:30 am
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... [..] The dip combinator dives underneath the top of the stack, does something there and finally restores that under which it dived (dove?). I was initially...
Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Jul 9, 2002 1:51 am
1148
I just finished adding continuations to Meta/4 and I was wondering what other people think of them. I'm also wondering if anyone thought of a different way to...
... Correction - due to tail call optimization this should be 1 cont (which is the same as exit really). Although cont could be defined as a macro that...
... part of what people can use. See mlg's work on continuations, backtracking, and coroutines in Forth to see the power of an open return stack. ... want to...
