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Re: [colorforth] explicit vs. implicit


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On Sunday 15 August 2004 01:11 pm, Mark Slicker wrote:
> Lisp builds the tree explictly top down, Forth builds the tree
> implictly bottom up. The differences probably carry with them various
> advantages/disadvantages.

The nice thing about either approach is that you can conduct type 
inferencing relatively easily.  This produces a language that, should 
you so desire it to be, is very type safe, but doesn't have any of the 
clutter, EXCEPT when defining leaf-nodes to the tree.

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Samuel A. Falvo II
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