Re: call/cc

[address@hidden (Kragen Sitaker)]

You write:
> > FORTH: marker foo  3 5 :noname + ; execute  foo
> >                                          9 tokens (explicit cleanup)
> > FORTH: 3 5 :noname + ; execute           6 tokens (cheating because no GC)
> > PostScript: 3 5 {add} exec               6 tokens
> > dc: 3 5 [+] x                            6 tokens
> 
> i don't agree with the FORTH, PostScript and dc version since the addition is
> used a simple function.
> 
> or you must allow:
> 
> OCaml: (+) 3 5            5 tokens
> Haskell: (+) 3 5          5 tokens

No, the FORTH, PostScript, and dc versions of that are 3 5 +, 3 5 add,
and 3 5+, respectively.  All three of them are, in fact, creating a
new anonymous function of two arguments which applies the language's
primitive addition operator to them and returns its result.  It's just
that in stack-based languages, you don't have to name either your
formal parameters or your actual parameters.