From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T08:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Language recommendations from ruby persons....

Hi ..

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 17:47 +0900, Robbie Carlton wrote:
> Factor looks very cool. But I think the postfix maths is a potential
> problem. People really like infix. I think this is the major reason lisp
> hasn't been excepted more widely.
> 
The nice (bizarre?) thing about Forth-ish languages is that they 
are complete chameleons.  You want infix?  Not a problem, just 
add a library to redefine the operators.  The language doesn't care:

> 4 5 + .  
9 ok
> : infix  32 word number drop ;
> : plus  infix + ;
> 4 plus 5 .
9 ok
> : .+  plus ;
> : .=  . ;
> 4 .+ 5 .=
9 ok

So, are we infix or postfix?  Does it really matter?

-mark.