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I do not have many experience with postfix languages. I mostly use RPL for simple ad-hoc programs, and I dynamic stack effects all the time. Mostly for logging and for error messages. In the "real world" one would not do that, so maybe I'm overestimating it.

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Factor supports both dynamic and statically-unbalanced stack effects, but the former risks destabilizing the runtime and the later requires that defunctionalization (read: inlining) ultimately resolve to a static, balanced stack effect. It's all documented quite well in subpages of that article I linked you to.

In practice, all of the unbalanced stack-effects will become trivially balanced at word boundaries & dynamic stack-effects only occur when metaprogramming.

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