Hi. I see I'm not the only one who hasn't been very active on this list lately. Worse, for me, I haven't been able to devote much of my work time to the Joy ...
hi chris true, the list has been slow lately, but i don't take this an indication that people haven't been thinking about the subject. i do miss the ...
sa@...
Sep 8, 2004 12:50 pm
1964
a concatenative programming language is one in which concatenation denotes the composition of functions. in XY, the elements of the language are binary...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 10, 2004 11:30 pm
1965
i've lost all my mail for the month of july, including the discussion on the project of compiling short papers on joy's kith and kin. what's the status of the...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 10, 2004 11:48 pm
1966
... My paper on Forth is hardly started -- I keep starting, running out of time, restarting, and trying again. I'm busy. -Billy...
i asked slava if he had given any thought to gui in factor. let me describe how we (the k programming community) have tackled the problem, and how i imagine...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 11, 2004 4:13 pm
1968
Hi everybody, I apologize for the very long time it took to prepare this. This is a draft, and I intend to change a lot of things before the final version. ...
Slava Pestov
slava@...
Sep 13, 2004 2:49 am
1969
... Does the window reflect the object stored at V, or the variable V? The fact that you have it titled with the variable name reflects the latter. Is there a...
Slava Pestov
slava@...
Sep 13, 2004 4:00 am
1970
... If you feel this is a problem, then you can drop this restriction, and introduce named variables. It is not practical to hold the entire 'world' on the...
Slava Pestov
slava@...
Sep 13, 2004 4:51 am
1971
... From: "Slava Pestov" <slava@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:00 AM Subject: Re: [stack] concatenative...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 13, 2004 11:26 am
1972
... Do you find that the unclarity is native to the larger set of shufflings, or is it possible that the unclarity is due to unfamiliar names for the...
... ^^^^^^^^^^ any atomic value x $ applied to any non-atom recurses to the atoms, turns those into strings; the result has the structure of x....
sa@...
Sep 14, 2004 3:45 pm
1974
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, William Tanksley, Jr wrote: [..] ... Thanks for trying. There is no great hurry, really. All the best, and don't let work get you down. -...
... [..] Thanks for this. Since you marked it "draft" and asked for comments, I won't put it into the final version just yet. (I did not get any criticism for...
... The way I understand common usage is this: an n-ary function consumes n arguments and produces one result. Thus the addition function on number takes two...
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Chris Cogan wrote: [..] ... local ... If you can read this, Salvatore, would you be interested to write a contribution to the joint paper...
thanks - that helps as i try to prepare my contribution to the collection you're compiling. unfortunately, it's slow going, since the implementation hasn't...
sa@...
Sep 17, 2004 2:16 pm
1979
here's a draft of the XY paper, with one section -- Programming in XY -- incomplete. at this point, i've shut down further work on cK to concentrate on XY, so...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 18, 2004 8:00 pm
1980
i've added comments to XY: // this comment ends at the newline notationally, this is rather nice, since not only does it echo k's use of / for commentary, but...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 19, 2004 12:43 pm
1981
my description of eager lists in XY was incorrect. (X) is recursively transformed at parse-time to [[X]] [i] infra so that (1 2 +) yields [3]...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 19, 2004 2:11 pm
1982
Barring unpleasant discoveries, i imagine this is close to a final draft. i've filled out the "programming in XY" section with an implementation of Factor's >r...
sa@...
Sep 20, 2004 1:13 pm
1983
i guess a few lines wrapped in what i sent. see http://www.nsl.com/k/xy/xy.txt for a good text version....
sa@...
Sep 20, 2004 1:23 pm
1984
... I'm curius as to what this can be used for. Slava...
Slava Pestov
slava@...
Sep 20, 2004 10:09 pm
1985
... From: "Slava Pestov" <slava@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [stack] XY: second draft ...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 20, 2004 11:33 pm
1986
... From: "Slava Pestov" <slava@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [stack] XY: second draft ...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 21, 2004 12:25 pm
1987
i've posted the "final" draft on my website: www.nsl.com/k/xy/xy.htm i've added an "operations" section which describes how to actually use the damned thing!...
stevan apter
sa@...
Sep 22, 2004 10:53 pm
1988
Thanks Stevan. I've saved it as .htm and as .txt We'll have to decide which format is best for the joint collection. Slava - shall I now save your Factor...
thank you manfred. if you don't mind, can you grab it once more? i added a paragraph on scoping, and documentation for the following new feature. in joy,...
sa@...
Sep 23, 2004 4:03 pm
1990
... I think you've really got something there, stevan. Your notation and explanations make sense, and have clarified some of the things I was having a hard...
"William Tanksley, Jr" <wtanksleyjr@...> wrote on 09/23/2004 03:15:25 ... thanks - i'm glad you find it helpful in this way. for me too this has been an...
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