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08:49:30 <crc> http://gist.github.com/555269
09:10:34 <yiyus> crc: interesting...
09:10:50 <yiyus> i have spent this week discussing about a similar language
09:11:24 <yiyus> somebody told conditionals block should be: [ true block] [ false block] condition if
09:11:50 <yiyus> i did not agree, i think your way is better
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11:35:30 <crc> yiyus: thanks. Having the condition after the blocks isn't good for a stack-based language, since you're adding items (blocks) to the stack; they'd have to be moved out of the way, then restored. Or you'd have to shuffle things yourself; it's just cleaner to have them follow the condition
11:37:13 <yiyus> that was my argument, also that every other stack language works that way. their argument was that 'condition if' was more forth like!
11:38:49 <yiyus> does your language work with ngaro or does it need modifications?
11:38:51 <crc> I actually prefer the use of blocks over the more normal forth structures
11:38:58 <crc> yiyus: it works with ngaro
11:39:23 <yiyus> nice, i want to update gonga soon
11:39:25 <crc> currently, it's written *in* retroforth, but I expect it to be self-hosting on ngaro at some point
11:39:29 <crc> cool
11:39:33 <yiyus> and i want to add support for regexps
11:39:52 <yiyus> i would like to use it for scripting
11:44:17 <crc> I'll look forward to that
12:45:28 <docl> parable looks pretty sweet
12:51:38 <crc> docl: thanks
12:52:16 <docl> I'm trying it out now. It is really cool!
12:52:38 <crc> http://gist.github.com/555500
12:52:55 <docl> I like the colon prefix. goes well with the [ ] blocks.
12:53:04 <crc> revised; with more words and part of the bootstrap.toka file ported over
12:55:37 <docl> [ ... ] are still called quotes, right?
12:56:14 <crc> quotes or blocks
12:56:34 <crc> most languages using [ ] seem to prefer block; I'm not picky :)
12:56:47 <docl> :)
12:57:21 <docl> I see the # prefix is needed for numbers. I like that... makes it more clear that you are talking about a literal number, and takes the complexity out of the listen loop.
12:57:58 <crc> this is slightly more like colorforth, but with prefixes used instead of colors
13:03:25 * docl has to leave for a portland cryo meetup, will play with this some more later tonight or tomorrow
13:03:32 <docl> again, it is really cool.
13:03:44 <crc> ok, hope the meeting goes well
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