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Re: Vectors as functions
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 08:59 AM, Joe Marshall wrote:
>> I understand what is meant by dynamic and static binding. Or compile
>> time or runtime lookup resolution. But what do you mean by
>> "syntactic"?
>
> First-class `macros' that you can re-define on the fly.
I think Rebol's "dialects" feature might be something like this. As I
understand it from reading their webpage, Rebol is interpreted, a
program is a list of tokens evaluated left to right, and a token, when
run, can decide how to interpret the remainder of the token stream.
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--- james mccartney