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0 pointsabecedarius2y ago0 comments

Yeah, fair. Forth especially really commits to that left-to-right order in its general style -- I like it when a language and its culture are conscious about readability in this way.

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tome2y ago

It is interesting that the "of" style is common in Ocaml where the left-to-right style is common. They seem to clash!

I would like to know what it's like to work in a fully left-to-right language, for example, to define `my_floob`:

      let my_crumb |> zing_to_crumb |> crumb_to_glork |> glork_to_floob = my_floob

nequo2y ago

In addition to Forth, R can do this too:

  x |> zing_to_crumb() |> crumb_to_glork() |> glork_to_floob() -> my_floob

But it is not idiomatic.

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