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ithkuil on Sept 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language

Beautiful.

I'm a bit surprised by

    [1 2 ; .] 3

Producing

    [1 2 3]

Instead of

    3
    [1 2]

iFreilicht on Sept 30, 2023 [–]

Every function has to pop all its inputs from and push its output to the stack. the duplicate (or .) function pops one input and pushes it twice.

That is a little surprising, but making stack operations special in that they don't need to pop their arguments might be a worse option.

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