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Re: CfV: Quotations

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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> I expect quotations to become CORE EXT

Hmm, that surprises me a bit, since quotations seem like an esoteric
feature for most Forth users.  But I guess the implementation can be
very simple..  

> so there would be no requirement to implement locals in order to
> implement quotations.

IMO locals are much more useful, so regardless of implementation
dependencies, if I had to pick just one I'd pick locals.

> 2e 0e v vlen [: ( rexp racc r -- rexp racc1 ) 2 fpick f** f+ :] fmap

> Bernd Paysan thinks that's good enough.  I am not sure.  Especially
> when working with several HOFs at once, it becomes hard to follow what
> happens on the stack.  Or maybe it's just that we are not used to
> dealing with that.

That example is readable but yes, it does get worse with deeper levels
of HOF.  Witness Haskell vs Python: the languages have similar raw
capabilities, but Haskell uses HOFs more freely because its type system
keeps them from getting out of control.

I think that Forthers generally don't want to use so much abstraction so
maybe it won't be an issue.  In fact I wonder if we language geeks are
irresistably drawn to features that working practitioners (hardware
designers etc.) don't particularly care about.  The whole quotation
discussion could be an example of that.

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CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-10 16:52 +0000
  Re: CfV: Quotations Matthias Trute <matthias.trute@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 11:19 -0700
  Re: CfV: Quotations Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-10 11:55 -0700
    Re: CfV: Quotations Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-08-14 20:52 +0000
      Re: CfV: Quotations hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-08-14 14:42 -0700
        Re: CfV: Quotations Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 16:43 -0700
      Re: CfV: Quotations Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-15 22:16 -0700
        Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-16 07:13 +0000
          Re: CfV: Quotations Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-18 15:30 -0700
            Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-19 15:32 +0000
          Re: CfV: Quotations Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-08-20 20:46 +0000
            Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-21 09:32 +0000
              Re: CfV: Quotations hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-08-21 11:06 -0700
                Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-24 17:02 +0000
              Re: CfV: Quotations Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-08-21 22:52 +0000
                Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-22 13:54 +0000
                Re: CfV: Quotations Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-08-22 23:19 +0000
                Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-24 15:54 +0000
                Re: CfV: Quotations Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-08-28 00:43 +0000
                Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-28 09:53 +0000
                Re: CfV: Quotations Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-08-28 08:32 -0500
                Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-28 14:38 +0000
  Re: CfV: Quotations mhx@iae.nl - 2016-08-10 12:02 -0700
  Re: CfV: Quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-11 17:25 +0100
  Re: CfV: Quotations Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2016-08-11 12:48 -0700
  Re: CfV: Quotations minforth@arcor.de - 2016-08-16 03:31 -0700
  Re: CfV: Quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-31 15:15 +0100
    Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-31 15:26 +0000
      Re: CfV: Quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-09-02 22:33 +0100
        Re: CfV: Quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-09-03 06:47 +0000

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