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Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object

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On Friday, May 17, 2013 6:04:34 AM UTC+1, Ron Aaron wrote:
> On 05/16/2013 11:37 PM, Alex McDonald wrote:
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> > A sizable chunk of the resulting language is very Forth-like.
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> > Thoughts?
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> Yes: that is the direction I'm going with my next-generation Reva 
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> (called "sheminit", or "8th").
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> It makes sense to me to "do the right thing" where possible, e.g "+" 
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> should concatenate strings if the objects on the stack are strings, and 
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> do addition if they are numbers.  It becomes a bit less clear what to do 
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> if the objects are mixed, and that is where excellent documentation (and 
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> example code) will be most useful.
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> I'm also eliminating the distinction between normal integers, doubles 
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> and floating point.  One set of words for them all, and the 'number' 
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> object will use the most precise but smallest representation it can. 
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> The progression (for integer numbers) would be "32bit" -> "64bit" -> 
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> "128bit" -> "bigint".  So while the math would get slower, one wouldn't 
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> have to be concerned with overflow and such things.  If, for example, 
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> attempting to calculate the US debt...
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> I'm not certain what representation to use for "real" numbers.  Since I 
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> expect to run on Intel and ARM as well (my target platforms are 
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> Windows/Mac/Linux and Android/iOS, at first) and perhaps other, unknown 
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> CPUs, I don't know if using the IEEE fp formats is supported across the 
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> board, though it probably doesn't make a difference except when 
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> transferring data from one to another (and that would potentially affect 
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> integer data as well, so ...)

Sounds great. I'd be interested in using something like that.

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Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-16 13:37 -0700
  Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-05-17 00:09 +0200
    Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-05-16 18:31 -0700
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-17 05:38 -0700
    Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-17 05:39 -0700
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-05-19 00:09 +0200
        Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Ian Osgood <iano@quirkster.com> - 2013-05-25 11:36 -0700
          Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-25 13:10 -0700
  Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 08:04 +0300
    Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-16 22:19 -0700
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 08:26 +0300
        Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-16 22:43 -0700
          Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 09:25 +0300
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-17 00:26 -0700
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-05-17 13:25 +0000
        Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-05-19 00:34 +0200
          Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-05-18 15:55 -0700
            Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-05-19 01:27 +0200
            Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-05-19 01:35 +0200
    Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-17 00:29 -0700
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-05-18 19:38 -0700
    Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-17 05:40 -0700
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 16:18 +0300
    Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-05-17 12:50 +0000
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-17 06:09 -0700
      Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 16:25 +0300
  Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object alberto@hal-pc.org (Alberto) - 2013-05-17 14:35 +0000
  Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-19 05:48 -0700
  Re: Another OOP thread; everything on the stack is an object Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-25 19:56 -0700

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