Combinators

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A central concept in Factor is that of a combinator, which is a word taking code as input.
• Fundamental combinators
• Data flow combinators
• Conditional combinators
• Looping combinators
• Compositional combinators
• Short-circuit combinators
• Smart combinators
More combinators are defined for working on data structures, such as Sequence combinators and Associative mapping combinators.
• Quotation construction utilities
• Generalized shuffle words and combinators

See also
Quotations