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november.nihal@gmail.com writes:
> Yes I mean quoted lists like in Lisp.
> Joy has a list datatype which doubles up for quotations ( as does factor )
> Forth does not have a list datatype and thus any implementation we
> forthers create will be limited by the constraints of what we have.

Ok, yeah.  I haven't used joy or factor.  I think the programs=data
aspect of Lisp is overrated by some users and Lisp is really about
lambda calculus.  Lisp has macros that rely on code-as-data, but its
counterpart of quotations would be lexical closures, which are handled
by the black-box compiler.  Similar with Scheme, Python, etc.