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>arithmetic in most concatenative languages is written in postfix Postfix? I'm assuming a typo here but not sure what you meant. Edit: Ah, I'm guessing it was
by Tiksi 10y ago
>arithmetic in most concatenative languages is written in postfix
Postfix? I'm assuming a typo here but not sure what you meant.
Edit: Ah, I'm guessing it was supposed to be postscript. Makes more sense now.
Looks like an interesting language style though, I've been looking for a language that has the bash style piping baked into the language.
- evincarofautumn 10y agoPrefix/postfix/infix refer to the order in which you write operations and their operands—equivalently you can think of preorder/postorder/inorder traversals of the syntax tree. AST + / \ * 5 / \ 2 3 Infix 2 * 3 + 5 2 times 3 plus 5. Prefix + * 2 3 5 Lisp (+ (* 2 3) 5) The sum of the product of 2 and 3, and 5. Postfix 2 3 * 5 + With 2 and 3, multiply. Then with 5, add.
- Tiksi 10y agoAhh, understood now. I figured postscript as it's also a concatinative programming language. I read postfix as in the mail server not as a synonym of suffix, thanks for the clarification.
- klibertp 10y ago> synonym of suffix Antonym, actually. Prefixes are literally on the other end of things than suffixes are ;)
- TallGuyShort 10y agoHe's talking about postfix, not prefix. It's closer to being a synonym of suffic.
- klibertp 10y agoOh shit, true. My mistake. Sorry!