... Yes, this clears a lot of things up. On a related note, does this mean that you can't programmatically create a definition? Is this something that is ...
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John Cowan
cowan@...
Sep 24, 2001 6:03 pm
... Basically no (it would be possible to bypass the rules by writing out definitions into a file and then using "include" on the file). Defined words are...
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 1, 2001 3:17 am
... [..] ... See (5) optimiser below ... Lots of possibilities, and they all fall under the concept of meta-programming, i.e. programming that takes programs...
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Heiko.Kuhrt@...
Oct 2, 2001 2:15 pm
Hello, RABBIT is a simple Joy-LIBRA for html-generation. Today I did an upload of a html file containing a discription of RABBIT, the source of RABBIT and the ...
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Billy Tanksley
wtanksley@...
Oct 2, 2001 5:49 pm
Nice. Here's the actual link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/concatenative/files/rabbit.html This is great! -Billy From: Heiko.Kuhrt@......
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 4, 2001 9:02 am
... Fully agree. It pleases me when other people write programs in Joy. To do it full justice, though, I will have to put it into a form that I can read on my...
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 8, 2001 6:11 am
... Yes, thank you very much. This is a fine program indeed. I have now had an opportunity to see it from a more sophisticated browser, with all the bells and...
Thank you very mutch for your encouragement. But for different reasons the further development of my little project will take some time. Nevertheless, I will...
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 15, 2001 10:14 am
I have added a new paper to the Joy page, "Imperative Thinking in Joy". It is the latest Pearl (Examples of Programming in Joy): ...
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Ocie Mitchell
ocie_mitchell@...
Oct 15, 2001 6:12 pm
... http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy/jp-imper.html ... Interesting reading. It seems that the imperative nature of joy can be used to perform...
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Billy Tanksley
wtanksley@...
Oct 15, 2001 6:43 pm
From: Manfred von Thun [mailto:phimvt@...] ... I do indeed. I believe that this page will do quite a bit to help people understand how Joy...
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 16, 2001 2:52 am
... Nice thought. It had not occurred to me explicitly before, although I had been doing that sort of thing for quite some time. ... Oops. How embarrassing....
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 16, 2001 3:07 am
... [deletion] ... That is a great idea. Develop the hidden parts separately (more or less as I have done, but using the HIDE facility explicitly). But when...
... http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy/jp-imper.html ... I took a look at this last night and I think I have a fix. The problem is the following...
Hello folks... I haven't posted anything for a while because my internet has been a bit weird, having trouble connecting with my TUNES email account. But I've...
Hello folks... I haven't posted anything for a while because my internet has been a bit weird, having trouble connecting with my TUNES email account. But I've...
... [snip] Interesting ideas. I was going over some exercises from an AI class I took a while back and ran into a bit of a problem. What I wanted to do was...
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Billy Tanksley
wtanksley@...
Oct 16, 2001 6:15 pm
From: Brent L Kerby [mailto:bkerby@...] ... That's the semantics of Forth, although Forth does it without the complex syntax (which I'm not saying is...
... all be ... This leads to some kond of "multy-stack automaton programming", and sounds quite good (imho). Maybe, some "dynamic" features are better to be...
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Billy Tanksley
wtanksley@...
Oct 17, 2001 6:19 pm
From: dmitry_n_petrov@... [mailto:dmitry_n_petrov@...] ... As an illegal operation -- if quotations are actually strings then they're not lists....
If strings are quotations, then they can be unquoted. Such understanding of string does not require programs to be represented as strings (if this is a bad...
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Billy Tanksley
wtanksley@...
Oct 18, 2001 5:54 pm
From: dmitry_n_petrov@... [mailto:dmitry_n_petrov@...] [Assumption: let quotations be represented by the string datatype.] ... It's fairly obvious...
... Yes, this is the cause of trobules. Strings have their specific (character-based) operations, that make semantic analysis impossible. Number of dynamic...
... Yes, this is the cause of trobules. Strings have their specific (character-based) operations, that make semantic analysis impossible. Number of dynamic...
... Yes, this is the cause of trobules. Strings have their specific (character-based) operations, that make semantic analysis impossible. Number of dynamic...
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Billy Tanksley
wtanksley@...
Oct 19, 2001 6:06 pm
From: dmitry_n_petrov@... [mailto:dmitry_n_petrov@...] ... No, it's not. You keep ignoring all discussion and just making that same statement over...
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 22, 2001 3:15 am
I am planning to go through the C-sources soon to fix a few matters: 1. Division by zero. This crashes when one or both of the parameters are floats. 2. The...
... The app4 combinator also has an easily fixed bug. Here is a test case showing the problem: 1 2 3 4 5 [+] app4 => 1 3 4 5 7 <-- this is wrong, TOS should...
First let me apologise if this has already come up (I couldn't find it in the archive). I was just thinking about the identification of the left and right...
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Manfred von Thun
phimvt@...
Oct 23, 2001 4:48 am
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Joel Kelso wrote: Thanks for the interest! It is good to hear that people do read the theoretical material on Joy. ... No, I think a good...
