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@@ -23,18 +23,17 @@ When talking about Joy we use the terms "stack", "quote", "sequence",
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permits certain operations such as iterating and pushing and popping
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values from (at least) one end.
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> In describing Joy I have used the term quotation to describe all of the
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above, because I needed a word to describe the arguments to combinators
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which fulfill the same role in Joy as lambda abstractions (with
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variables) fulfill in the more familiar functional languages. I use the
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term list for those quotations whose members are what I call literals:
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numbers, characters, truth values, sets, strings and other quotations.
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All these I call literals because their occurrence in code results in
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them being pushed onto the stack. But I also call [London Paris] a list.
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So, [dup *] is a quotation but not a list.
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In describing Joy I have used the term quotation to describe all of the
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above, because I needed a word to describe the arguments to combinators
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which fulfill the same role in Joy as lambda abstractions (with
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variables) fulfill in the more familiar functional languages. I use the
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term list for those quotations whose members are what I call literals:
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numbers, characters, truth values, sets, strings and other quotations.
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All these I call literals because their occurrence in code results in
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them being pushed onto the stack. But I also call [London Paris] a list.
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So, [dup \*] is a quotation but not a list.
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"A Conversation with Manfred von Thun" w/ Stevan Apter
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http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000350
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`"A Conversation with Manfred von Thun" w/ Stevan Apter <http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000350>`_
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There is no "Stack" Python class, instead we use the `cons list`_, a
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venerable two-tuple recursive sequence datastructure, where the
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