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Ah, interesting. And I guess it's easier to make it prefix than to require the function name be a string or symbol. Yeah, I noticed that Fif uses prefix for fu

• Avshalom 8y ago
  Yeah, Forth for instance has : Function (comment) function body ; The colon, name and stack comment are all in prefix position. But in an interpreted environment you could maybe swap the semicolon to prefix and the name to postfix but you're still stuck with some prefix token to prevent execution. Forth also has Bool if code else code which is essentially prefix. But it boils down to the same reason, you need some prefix to delay execution anyway. From a sort of conceptual level this is all fine anyway. A big part of stack languages is how they lead to a data flow sort of programming rather than some fundamentalist belief in postfix syntax. So when there is a language construct that doesn't benefit-from/contribute-to that data flow style people choose syntax they find comfortable or readable which is sometimes prefix or even infix.