From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T13:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Language recommendations from ruby persons....


Hi ..

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:34 +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Mark Probert wrote:
> >>: infix  32 word number drop ;
> >>: plus  infix + ;
> >>4 plus 5 .
> > 
> > 9 ok
> 
> Cute, but that only works when the second argument (5 in this case) is a 
> literal. Getting true infix in forth would be as hard as doing it in any 
> programming language implementation.
> 
Sure.  The point being that the languages are by their nature
extensible at this level.  Nothing is sacred.  That can be
both a good thing and a bad thing, of course ...  However,
there are type extensions, object extensions, functional 
extensions, ways of making it look like LISP, et al.  

Though not to make it look like J .. 

-mark.