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...
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...
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...
... 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]...
... From: "Don Groves" <dgroves@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [stack] Pattern matching,...
Stevan Apter
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Apr 6, 2004 8:12 pm
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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...
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...
... 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....
Stevan Apter
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Apr 6, 2004 9:25 pm
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From: Stevan Apter [mailto:sa@...] ... Oh! Sorry -- I just assumed you had some reason for doing things differently ... match head and tail. ... Yup,...
... From: "Tanksley, William D. Jr." <TanksleyJrW@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: RE: [stack]...
Stevan Apter
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Apr 6, 2004 10:20 pm
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... Very nice. I know nothing of cK, mostly Forth and some Joy. ... So do I, hopefully my 'Amen' gave that impression. -- dg...
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...
Stevan Apter
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Apr 7, 2004 10:20 am
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From: Stevan Apter [mailto:sa@...] ... That's very useful for most applications -- for pattern matching, though, you have to find some way of describing...
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...
stevan apter
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Apr 13, 2004 1:27 am
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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...
stevan apter
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Apr 15, 2004 12:55 am
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From: stevan apter [mailto:sa@...] ... Cool. What special characters are available? Can you give examples to manipulate more than one array? For example,...
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...
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...
stevan apter
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Apr 15, 2004 10:16 am
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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...
stevan apter
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Apr 15, 2004 10:21 pm
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... 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...
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 ...
Slava Pestov
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Apr 16, 2004 4:17 am
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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...
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...
stevan apter
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Apr 16, 2004 12:55 pm
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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...
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...
... [...] ... 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...
... 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...
Slava Pestov
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Apr 16, 2004 3:18 pm
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Hi all, What do people think about this? For example right now I have a word 'prettyprint' that formats a given expression and produces hyperlinks (if the...
