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		finnh 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures... The sample flat program in the post is exactly RPN, no?

samps 12 months ago [–]

I think it would be more like RPN if it used a stack, and operands were specified as relative offsets (i.e., stack offsets). In the version I wrote, operands are still represented as absolute offsets in the expression table.

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