On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Viktor Cerovski
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> length=:3 : '%: +/ *: y' ?
> Tacit expressions are more alive: as soon as you define one,
> it gets evaluated and you get something back that is valid,
> i.e either noun, verb or adverb, or an error.  In fact the only
> way something may go wrong in this sense is if your tacit
> definition involves implicitly some implicit definitions.

This is easily remedied

   3 : '%: +/ *: y' 3 4
5

Meanwhile, note that tacit programming can have exactly the
same ugliness

   13 : '%: +/ *: y' 3 4
5

-- 
Raul
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