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Re: postfix
At 12:26 PM 12/3/2001 -0500, Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs wrote:
>This raises an interesting question: does anyone know whether
>there are any Forth programmers out there who structure their
>code visually using "upside-down" indenting such as
>
> [2 3 4 5]
> [1 add]
> 1 10 range
> map
> concat
>
>?
I used to, within the limits of my environment, when I was writing Forth
code. The paper versions definitely looked like that. (with lots of
comments noting stack contents and effects) It made it a lot easier to keep
track of what I was doing.
Dan
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- From: Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <gls@labean.East.Sun.COM>