On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:19 PM, fft1976 <fft1...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > I find stack languages to be obtuse. Sometimes Forth programmers need > variables, and what they do is usually just mutable some global ones. > Also Forth programmers always have to document what they are doing > with the stack: what arguments are consumed what results are left, > i.e. this is a calling convention "by convention". Why not let the > compiler enforce these rules instead of leaving it up to the comments?
Factor has a library for local variables based on Scheme, no less. Also, the Factor compiler does at least some checks on stack effects. Cheers, Victor Rodriguez. > Basically, applicative languages (like C) are to Forth, what GC is to > malloc/free and what STM is to locks: a huge step forward. > > I don't know what Factor people are doing. It's Forth with dynamic > typing, as far as I know. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
