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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Saturday, November 1, 2003 3:22:25 pm | by JohnMcPherson | |
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In Reverse Polish, or __postfix__, notation you write the operator after the arguments.
c 5 a + x + b * -
-It's very easy to interpret expressions in this notation, you need just a single stack to place intermediate values on, this is why [Forth] uses
it.
+It's very easy to interpret expressions in this notation, you need just a single stack to place intermediate values on, this is why [Forth] and PostScript (which was based on Forth?) use
it.
!!!Polish
In Polish, or __prefix__, notation you write the operator before the arguments.
