Re: [dev] nscript - a little stack-based scripting language interpretter I wrote

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 03:24:03AM +0300, Nikhilesh S wrote:
> Preceding a name with '$' will create a variable with that name and pop
> and assign the last thing on the stack to it. Simply a name will push
> the value of the variable with that name onto the stack (if it's not
> executable, we're getting to executables soon).
>
> 3 $var 2 5 var + print # prints '8', 2 is left on stack

Personally, I don't think that a special syntax for variable
definition fits well in a stack-based language. I prefer the
PostScript syntax of quoting the word and using the def keyword,
so:

     2 $var def

or

     { 'hi' print } $foo def

or the reverse, or another quoting character. It could also
replace &foo to push a block onto the stack, since executing the
quoted word would be equivalent to executing its associated
block.

-- 
Kris Maglione
Correctness is clearly the prime quality.  If a system does not do
what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters
little.
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