From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: w_a_x_man Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:09:01 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <00efa1f2-0d26-4280-8dd3-2ecfcdfa4f08@30g2000yql.googlegroups.com> References: <80ceeca0-1d32-47d1-ba96-feb4d9729c3a@v17g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> <767329f7-d300-4090-93cb-717d70fbadc4@i17g2000vbq.googlegroups.com> <87ei8rdo38.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <4d25c5f5$0$23761$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <87bp3tdejx.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294360831 30303 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2011 00:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 00:40:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 07 01:40:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pb0NX-0004Eo-PF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:40:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33755 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pb0NX-0000b1-AZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!30g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional, comp.lang.lisp, gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.forth, comp.lang.prolog Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.42.179.249 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1294358941 14333 127.0.0.1 (7 Jan 2011 00:09:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 00:09:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 30g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.42.179.249; posting-account=vf5QpQoAAADgh9WOa2uZtoS1yoyJdEBw User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.lang.functional:69135 comp.lang.lisp:297363 gnu.emacs.help:184079 comp.lang.forth:160411 comp.lang.prolog:44055 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78273 Archived-At: On Jan 6, 1:20=A0pm, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote: > so it becomes readable again and you can see there's a bug in the Forth > expression. =A0 =A0Since the syntax become suddenly much simplier, we don= 't > need to prefix operators with 'F' anymore. Since Forth is a low-level language, operators aren't overloaded. "F+" adds two floats, "+" adds two integers.