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Any chance that this is inspired by Forth?


Define "inspired". I became aware of Forth while implementing Elymas. But the decision to make it stack based was actually because I was too lazy (after some attempts) to implement a correct LALR-parser-generator.


If you want a more conventional syntax, I'd suggest trying with a recursive-descent/precedence-climbing parser.





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