¶Should stack values be modeled as quotations?
Now that Swanson is concatenative, it operates on a stack of values. I want it to be possible for those to be nested: that is, you can have a stack
In typical concatenative languages, a
How would this work in a
Stack values cannot be quotations
Stack values can be quotations
¶Decision
In Swanson, stack values are a distinct thing, and are not modeled as quotations. Partly so that we can come up with a linear basis of S₀ instructions that manipulate stack values.