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Re: Postscript in 4tH

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References <117hl2n$1ne4b$1@dont-email.me> <117prfv$gq7e$3@dont-email.me> <2026Sep9.084205@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <117r5b2$u52n$5@dont-email.me>
From albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl
Subject Re: Postscript in 4tH
Message-ID <nnd$5bb303af$6d539df9@bf8ade32fca4bcd8> (permalink)
Organization www.abavia.com
Date 2026-09-09 14:42 +0200

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In article <117r5b2$u52n$5@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence DÿOliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
<SNIP>
>That’s a limited form of read-only introspection. You couldn’t do
>transformations on the AST or such, could you? For a start, that would
>require dynamic memory allocation, which Forth doesn’t have.

Infinite memory is as good as dynamic memory. I can expand my Forth
to e.g. 128 Gbyte that is for all practical purposes infinite.
Then it is a small change to use ALLOCATE that is not in the kernel
of my Forth, but it is a loadable extension.

>
>Even Java could probably manage what Forth does, and nobody would call
>it “homoiconic”.
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Re: Postscript in 4tH Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-08 02:09 -0300
  Re: Postscript in 4tH Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-08 20:34 +0000
    Re: Postscript in 4tH Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-08 22:38 -0300
      Re: Postscript in 4tH Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-09 03:05 +0000
        XML in Pythong (was: Re: Postscript in 4tH) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-09 15:00 +0800
        Re: Postscript in 4tH Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-10 01:06 -0300
          Re: Postscript in 4tH Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-10 07:38 +0000
          Re: Postscript in 4tH Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-09-10 07:39 -0700
      Re: Postscript in 4tH Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-09 15:15 +0800
        Re: Postscript in 4tH Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-10 01:11 -0300
      Re: Postscript in 4tH anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-09-09 07:35 +0000
        Re: Postscript in 4tH Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-09 08:10 +0000
          Re: Postscript in 4tH Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-09-10 17:58 +0200
      Re: Postscript in 4tH Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-09-09 03:01 -0700
    Re: Postscript in 4tH anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-09-09 06:42 +0000
      Re: Postscript in 4tH Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-09 08:28 +0000
        Re: Postscript in 4tH anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-09-09 10:03 +0000
          Re: Postscript in 4tH Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-09 22:17 +0000
        Re: Postscript in 4tH albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-09-09 14:42 +0200
          Re: Postscript in 4tH antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-09-09 19:17 +0000
            Re: Postscript in 4tH albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-09-10 12:22 +0200
          Re: Postscript in 4tH Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-09 21:54 +0000
            Re: Postscript in 4tH Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-09-09 22:14 -0700
            Re: Postscript in 4tH albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-09-10 12:30 +0200
      Re: Postscript in 4tH albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-09-09 14:36 +0200

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