I remember CURRY but didn't know about the '[ _ + ] notation.
I never understood what the point of CURRY was --- why not just use the local
variable name [ N + ] for readability?
Anyway, where is the local-frame being held that it can persist after the
function has exited? Is it on the heap like in Scheme/Lisp? Will it get GC'd
eventually?
My FMITE is intended to be a micro-controller used for real-time programs. I
think that GC is a no-go for real-time programming. I've already been "beat up"
by Pascal Bourguignon on comp.lang.lisp for saying that GC is a no-go for
real-time (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/-nWfXAs_4ug).
Languages such as Factor and Lisp are cool --- but I don't foresee them ever
being used in real-time micro-controllers --- these are for desktop-computers.
Slava once told me that the ColdFire was the smallest processor he could
foresee Factor running on --- but that is a gigantic expensive processor! ---
and he wasn't talking about real-time programming anyway, but he was thinking
of Factor being a scripting language for smart-phones. The FMITE is intended to
be used as a micro-controller.
How much of Factor could be implemented on the FMITE as part of LOTD? I would
hope that 90% of Factor could be integrated into LOTD, with the other 10% being
conveniences (anything relying on GC or dynamic-typing) that weren't critical
anyway.
regards --- Hugh
On Monday, July 13, 2015 7:20 PM, John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>
wrote:
These mean the same thing:
: add-quot ( n -- quot ) '[ _ + ] ;
: add-quot ( n -- quot ) [ + ] curry ;
:: add-quot ( n -- quot ) [ n + ] ;
They are basically different ways of currying the 'n' argument into the
quotation that is produced by ``add-quot``.
Best,John.
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