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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Infix/Postfix notation
Keywords: infix, postfix, stacks
Message-ID: <621@sas.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 13:13:14 GMT
References: <2768@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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How I'm not jumping in after everybody's finished having fun with this (I was
gone for a bit), but it seems to me that one of the biggest benefits of Forth's
stack approac has so far gone unmentioned:

	You can *return* multiple values easily.

This tends to be awkward and inefficient in other languages; in Forth, it is so 
natural that apparently nobody's even thought it worthy of comment so far.
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