Maybe the dsl aspect could be viewed as applying a layer of sugar to the
stack based workhorse. You could easily have 'adjectives' that accumulate
into a variable, not on the stack, then a noun word that takes those options
and does the work. This is how I accumulate attributes for the HTML
elements, and it feels like a dsl:
"Save" button <>submit
"org" id
<>form +content
button puts save into an attribute variable
<>submit uses (and clears) that variable, appends to the working collection
id puts "org" in the same place that button put things before
<>form uses the all-id variable to set attributes as it wraps what's on the
stack
+content puts it away somewhere.
This, I think, works fine for a dsl. It also works fine if the 'attribute
value' is a field of an object on the stack, and the stack throughout this
is
( page-assembly current-chunk xx -- page-assembly current-chunk )
or sometimes going down to
( page-assembly current-chunk -- page-assembly )
Using vocabularies, you could even keep an internal and an external version
of the word, where the stack one works faster, the other is the DSL.
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