The story of E, part 2 (fwd)

[Chip Morningstar]

Pretty nice. Where's part 1?

Markm hit most of the nits better than I could. The one I noticed was:

>Here finally we call some methods on our vector object.  Because
>Mark wanted E to be easy to type as a command language as well
>as something you could edit and compile large programs in, he
>chose the space as the method-call operator.  Admittedly, this

Actually, space is not the method-call operator, juxtaposition is.
The space character itself is irrelevent except as a token
delimiter. You can write

   a b
or
   a     b

and they mean the same thing, whereas

   a+b
and
   a+++++b

don't mean the same thing at all!

Chip

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