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1734 Massimo Dentico
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Mar 17, 2004
3:18 pm
I'm forwarding the message below because I think that this book could interest this list. It is the revised and simplified PhD thesis of Paul Blain Levy, the...
1735 andrew cooke
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Apr 6, 2004
1:50 am
Hi, Are either of these ideas useful? I've not used Joy (or APL, J, K etc), although I did play with Forth a little just under 20 years ago... First - maybe...
1736 Tanksley, William D. ...
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Apr 6, 2004
4:12 pm
From: andrew cooke [mailto:andrew@...] ... So you want annotations on arbitrary data (not on the stack, but on the data)? That's not a bad idea, but...
1737 Don Groves
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Apr 6, 2004
5:26 pm
... The "abc" part is redundant here. Something like "stack--cba" would be self-documenting and more easily understood than "swap rot", imho. Or, "[3 2 1]...
1738 Stevan Apter
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Apr 6, 2004
8:12 pm
... From: "Don Groves" <dgroves@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [stack] Pattern matching,...
1739 Rod Price
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Apr 6, 2004
8:57 pm
I've been reading this list for some time but have never participated. Now I want to ask a potentially embarrassing newbie question: Is there a free or...
1740 Tanksley, William D. ...
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Apr 6, 2004
9:19 pm
From: Don Groves [mailto:dgroves@...] ... OTOH, being able to use terms like "xyz--xyzzy&quot; versus "abc--cbcba&quot; does allow you to maintain a visible...
1741 Tanksley, William D. ...
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Apr 6, 2004
9:21 pm
From: Rod Price [mailto:rod.price@...] ... K is only available from www.kx.com, and you'll want to get the evaluation version (really, it's worth filling...
1742 Stevan Apter
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Apr 6, 2004
9:25 pm
... oh - that's a very nice idea - i hadn't thought of that. so [xy] always matches x to the car and y to the cdr? i like it....
1743 Tanksley, William D. ...
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Apr 6, 2004
10:02 pm
From: Stevan Apter [mailto:sa@...] ... Oh! Sorry -- I just assumed you had some reason for doing things differently ... match head and tail. ... Yup,...
1744 Stevan Apter
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Apr 6, 2004
10:20 pm
... From: "Tanksley, William D. Jr." <TanksleyJrW@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: RE: [stack]...
1745 Don Groves
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Apr 6, 2004
10:44 pm
... Very nice. I know nothing of cK, mostly Forth and some Joy. ... So do I, hopefully my 'Amen' gave that impression. -- dg...
1746 sa@... Send Email Apr 7, 2004
12:28 am
... with ... Pygmy ... for ... cK's shuffle notation supports nested patterns: 10 [20 30] 40 "a[bc]d--b[da]c" shuffle 20 [40 10] 30 see...
1747 Stevan Apter
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Apr 7, 2004
10:20 am
hi rod sure, there's a free version of k, which you can download from http://www.kx.com do be aware that cK is/was my lab for exploring manfred's ideas about...
1748 Tanksley, William D. ...
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Apr 13, 2004
12:28 am
From: Stevan Apter [mailto:sa@...] ... That's very useful for most applications -- for pattern matching, though, you have to find some way of describing...
1749 stevan apter
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Apr 13, 2004
1:27 am
so how's this: top-level elements in a pattern denote items on the stack. lists in the pattern contain lower-case letters which denote list-elements, and...
1750 stevan apter
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Apr 15, 2004
12:55 am
implemented in cK as an extension to shuffle-notation: top-level elements in a pattern denote items on the stack. lists in the pattern contain lower-case...
1751 Tanksley, William D. ...
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Apr 15, 2004
1:05 am
From: stevan apter [mailto:sa@...] ... Cool. What special characters are available? Can you give examples to manipulate more than one array? For example,...
1752 andrew cooke
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Apr 15, 2004
1:37 am
the syntax for otuto (the language i'm writing - started the parser today) that prompted me to ask this question originally - is a lot more verbose, but does a...
1753 stevan apter
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Apr 15, 2004
10:16 am
thanks for pointing out that more than one special character would be useful. i've reverted to my original scheme, using upper-case letters: [1 2 3][4 5 6][7...
1754 stevan apter
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Apr 15, 2004
10:21 pm
looks interesting - are you planning to release it for study/use by others? i would imagine that it's often useful to match richer patterns than just...
1755 andrew cooke
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Apr 15, 2004
11:59 pm
... thanks. yes, of course - i'll stick it on my web pages. i just finished the lexer :o) ... in otuto lists are linked lists, so that's not going to be a...
1756 Slava Pestov
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Apr 16, 2004
4:17 am
Hi all, For the last 7 months, I have been developing a concatenative language called FACTOR. It is hosted on the Java virtual machine, supporting both ...
1757 andrew cooke
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Apr 16, 2004
12:30 pm
how have you implememented continuations? in otuto i have two stacks - one for pending operations and one for values (i think the first of these is the same...
1758 stevan apter
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Apr 16, 2004
12:55 pm
it's wonderful to hear that there is activity on these fronts. i have no idea how many people are lurking, and working on their own ideas, but i worry that low...
1759 andrew cooke
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Apr 16, 2004
1:47 pm
the only url i have that's relevant to otuto is notes in my diary. it's only rough notes, and not corrected when things change, so the information is...
1760 Tanksley, William D. ...
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Apr 16, 2004
2:22 pm
From: andrew cooke [mailto:andrew@...] ... That sounds correct to me; Forth works the same way. As for terminology: the only language I know of which...
1761 andrew cooke
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Apr 16, 2004
3:17 pm
... [...] ... thanks. [...] ... variable stack effects? i don't know what that means, but my idea was to describe the type of an operation as a transformation...
1762 Slava Pestov
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Apr 16, 2004
3:18 pm
... Indeed, this is pretty much how I do it. A continuation is captured by the callcc word; it is given a quotation, and it applies the quotation to the...
1763 Slava Pestov
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Apr 16, 2004
3:33 pm
Hi all, What do people think about this? For example right now I have a word 'prettyprint&#39; that formats a given expression and produces hyperlinks (if the...
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