Concept: Bindings vs. Stack Juggling

Stack motion is useful, but readable Ricochet does not try to keep everything anonymous forever. A binding gives a value a name.

ricochet4 price var
3 quantity var
$price $quantity * subtotal var

Use a binding when the value has a role in the problem: price, quantity, subtotal, profile, settings, request, response.

A practical rule

If you need to use a value more than once, or several lines later, name it. If you only need to transform it immediately, leave it on the stack.

ricochet"  Ada  " trim uppercase println       (( immediate pipeline ))
"Ada Lovelace" name var               (( named domain value ))

Stack motion is not bad

dup, drop, swap, and over are good tools. The mistake is using them to hide a missing name. Clear Ricochet code alternates between fluent postfix pipelines and named values at important boundaries.