• Shammah Chancellor (4/4) Mar 30 2016 I just stumbled on this wikipedia article:
• BLM768 (8/12) Mar 30 2016 Not really. UFCS allows the syntax "x.foo.bar.baz", which is
• John Colvin (4/18) Mar 30 2016 import std.functional : pipe;
• BLM768 (6/9) Mar 30 2016 Interesting, but I'd call that a concatenative sub-language at

Shammah Chancellor <shammah.chancellor gmail.com> writes:

I just stumbled on this wikipedia article: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_language

Seems like D falls under that category?

-S.

BLM768 <blm768 gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 30 March 2016 at 20:53:02 UTC, Shammah Chancellor 
wrote:
 I just stumbled on this wikipedia article: 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_language

 Seems like D falls under that category?

 -S.

Not really. UFCS allows the syntax "x.foo.bar.baz", which is 
similar to a concatenative syntax, but the existence of "x" in 
the expression means it's not purely concatenative.

In a purely concatenative language, "foo bar baz" would produce a 
function that pipelines those three functions. "foo.bar.baz" in D 
would produce a compiler error.

John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 30 March 2016 at 22:14:11 UTC, BLM768 wrote:
 On Wednesday, 30 March 2016 at 20:53:02 UTC, Shammah Chancellor 
 wrote:
 I just stumbled on this wikipedia article: 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_language

 Seems like D falls under that category?

 -S.

 Not really. UFCS allows the syntax "x.foo.bar.baz", which is 
 similar to a concatenative syntax, but the existence of "x" in 
 the expression means it's not purely concatenative.

 In a purely concatenative language, "foo bar baz" would produce 
 a function that pipelines those three functions. "foo.bar.baz" 
 in D would produce a compiler error.

import std.functional : pipe;
alias allThree = pipe!(foo, bar, baz);

:)

BLM768 <blm768 gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 30 March 2016 at 22:20:02 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
 import std.functional : pipe;
 alias allThree = pipe!(foo, bar, baz);

 :)

Interesting, but I'd call that a concatenative sub-language at 
most. ;)

There's certainly some conceptual overlap between concatenative 
languages and D under certain conditions, but there's not much 
syntactic overlap.