The Joy-like VM has been rewritten. Now it is called "toy". This time, it seemed not to need two stacks. It is true that this means that the VM is implemented...
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wtanksley@... wrote: ... /square { dup mult } def or even /square { dup mult } bind def wouldn't that be nearly exactly the same in Postscript lingo? ...
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In the beginning there was nothing but shallow water. Then a great crocodile appeared and began thrashing his tail. He made the water deeper in some places. In...
Hello, folks.... Well, a bit ago I decided to follow Billy's advice and just make a simple interactive environment, and not worry about compilation to ELF and...
Here is a code fragment from the VM. MODULE Boxes; Import Out; TYPE Box* = POINTER TO RECORD; VAR next*: Box; PROCEDURE Exec*(stack: BoxStack); END Exec; ...
"Both of these languages which I proposed would have to be written in themselves (although it would be permissable to write the second one in the first). And...
From: Soren Renner [mailto:srenner@...] ... It's kind of inconvenient to have an interactive system without the ability to define things. However, if...
"Your "IF" primitive seems to pop things off the box stack, but I haven't seen any primitives that push things on... Does you[r] system have a quotation...
In this implementation, the fundamental data structure is a box chain. A box is just a record with a pointer to another box. A box chain is just a linked list....
I'm not sure what a continuation is exactly, but Mr. Thun, Joy's author, does, because in the standard Joy library is the following: ... (* - - - - - C O M B...
... A strange confusion... I'm not sure how this happened :-) Anyway, now for a topic I've been wanting to discuss for a little while: "lambdas" and their...
It's good to see six people here at the start. At this rate we'll be able to form a newsgroup by summer. Let's get down to business. There are some things...
From: Soren Renner [mailto:srenner@...] ... I have to check a box for that to happen. Once I do that, you can handle any of the new subscriptions we need;...
