Re:The Joy programming language
by richard_shelton on Sunday August 05, 2018 @04:34AM
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In a general sense, yes, of course. Here are more examples.
1. BNF notation. Yes, it could be surprising, but in a BNF-like language we use function-level representation and white spaces here denote sequential composition of functions -- nonterminals.
2. In a some Lisp-like language one may use spaces to describe "abstract" composition. So, for sequential composition: "(seq func1 func2 func3)". And for parallel composition, for example: "(par func1 func2 func3)".
But in the case of real concatenative programming, which has its origin in Forth, you mostly deal with stacks and stack machines.
1. BNF notation. Yes, it could be surprising, but in a BNF-like language we use function-level representation and white spaces here denote sequential composition of functions -- nonterminals.
2. In a some Lisp-like language one may use spaces to describe "abstract" composition. So, for sequential composition: "(seq func1 func2 func3)". And for parallel composition, for example: "(par func1 func2 func3)".
But in the case of real concatenative programming, which has its origin in Forth, you mostly deal with stacks and stack machines.