Re: [colorforth] explicit vs. implicit
- Subject: Re: [colorforth] explicit vs. implicit
- From: "Samuel A. Falvo II" <kc5tja@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:11:20 -0700
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On Sunday 15 August 2004 01:11 pm, Mark Slicker wrote:
> Lisp builds the tree explictly top down, Forth builds the tree
> implictly bottom up. The differences probably carry with them various
> advantages/disadvantages.
The nice thing about either approach is that you can conduct type
inferencing relatively easily. This produces a language that, should
you so desire it to be, is very type safe, but doesn't have any of the
clutter, EXCEPT when defining leaf-nodes to the tree.
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Samuel A. Falvo II
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