William, for another way of doing shuffles, look at extra/shufflers.
If Ed's proposal were implemented, it could just be another "skin" on
top of the same framework.

Dan

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:11 AM, William Tanksley, Jr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eduardo Cavazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I messed around with a stack reshaping notation a few days ago. There are 
>> four
>> forms:
>>        v[...]          drop
>>        <[...]          rotate left
>>        >[...]          rotate right
>>        ^[...]          pick
>
> I have very little credible neutrality on this issue, since I've
> designed a few shuffles myself, but a couple of points:
>
> 1. Nice! I'm glad to see that Factor can do shuffles. I had thought it
> was impossible.
> 2. Huh? I don't get this notation at all. Why 4 distinct dialects?
> 3. Why all the different punctuation marks?
>
> -Wm
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