Hi Billy, sorry this took longer than I would have liked. ... Yes, I use it as a syntactic category of factors. ... That is now a different use of the word...
... From: "Tanksley, William D. Jr." <william.d.tanksley.jr@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:28 PM Subject: RE:...
stevan apter
sa@...
Aug 10, 2003 1:14 am
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perhaps a bit off-topic - over the weekend i wrote a k interpreter for david madore's unlambda language - ...
stevan apter
sa@...
Aug 13, 2003 12:17 pm
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... [.. apropos my mystification about what `foo corresponds to in Joy..] ... Mystery solved: it is your combinators that are different from Joy. In...
... not at all ... amazing, amazing [...] ... From the Joy community, screams of protest, howls of indignation: "What? unlambda uses function application...
... [..] ... [..] ... OK, here it is. In Joy, consider [if-part] [then-part] [else-part] ifte or anything like that in which the three parts are on the top ...
i've implemented a tiny concatenative language which contains first- class continuations. so far, i've been able to simulate exceptions and control structures...
stevan apter
sa@...
Aug 17, 2003 6:46 pm
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From: stevan apter [mailto:sa@...] ... Are you sure they're first-class, since you can't manipulate them? All you can do is overwrite your saved...
From: stevan apter [mailto:sa@...] ... Are you sure they're first-class, since you can't manipulate them? All you can do is overwrite your saved...
sa@...
Aug 19, 2003 7:01 pm
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From: sa@... [mailto:sa@...] ... Hey, you're way further ahead of me -- you've actually implemented this. I've only done mockups under Forth. And like...
... From: "Tanksley, William D. Jr." <william.d.tanksley.jr@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:25 PM Subject: RE:...
stevan apter
sa@...
Aug 19, 2003 10:38 pm
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... a little ... Interesting. I'll have to read those papers sometime. ... and a ... normal ... will be used ... marker ... finds a ... An old version of...
From: Ivan Tomac [mailto:e1_t@...] ... In short, the articles point out that traditional continuations give you only limited control: you can return...
... AFAIK continuations were excluded from Common Lisp because they were believed to be too expensive in optimized implementations (they are fairly cheap in ...
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@...] ... They were accurately judged to be incompatible with many existing implementations, and the implementations they...
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Tanksley, William D. Jr. wrote: [...] ... From all of us: best wishes to mother and baby, and good luck with a new contract. - Manfred...
... [...] ... Sacriledge! Don't mention TECO in the same paragraph as sed, awk, J, K or APL! Us old hands who have the TECO manual in out fingertips don't like...
... standard doesn't ... class ... http://www.forth.org.ru/~mlg/, ... with the ... addresses (a ... Forth ... challenging). It definitley is challenging. I...
i find this stuff very hard to think about. apparently some people don't, and i'd really like to understand why. (for that reason, i've started down the...
stevan apter
sa@...
Aug 21, 2003 2:16 pm
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... Well, Emacs -- it's a wise child that knows its own father. I have hacked TECO, sed, and awk heavily, and APL casually. One of my back-burner projects is...
From: stevan apter [mailto:sa@...] ... I'm not personally aware of anyone who actually finds continuations easy to think about. Some of their subsets are...
i'm relieved that someone understands what i'm saying. i was starting to think that my drug-addled adolescence had returned with a vengeance. ah well, can't...
sa@...
Aug 21, 2003 7:37 pm
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... Stevan, I felt the same until I stumbled into a real world example: Christan Queinnec described the interaction of a web user with the server as a multiple...
... If you're interested I list some papers and examples of continuation based web servers at: http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2003/08/30.html Chris. -- ...
Chris Double
chris.double@...
Aug 30, 2003 12:20 pm
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Sorry, I know some of you must be getting sick of hearing about continuations by now ;) Yesterday I came across a paper ...
