Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!icus!dasys1!aj-mberg
From: aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Random comments
Summary: inconsistancies, notes on me project
Message-ID: <10425@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 03:36:18 GMT
Reply-To: aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger)
Organization: Aspaklaria Publications / AishDas Society
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First, my appologies of starting the "real programmer" thread. It was
written tongue-in-cheek, and fit in with the general tone of
talk.religion.computers at the time.

As someone new (less than 1 month, only have one working program - life)
to FORTH, 2 things really bug me. Why is it that we have 2!, 2DUP, 2CONSTANT,
but D. ? It seems inconsistant. You can't use 2 as a prefix across the board
(2+ and 2* are taken) but why not use D? I also mind that DO loops up to,
not including the limit - it's not intuitive.

I appreciate all the sugestions and responses to my last post. I'm writing
words to define a "parameter list" without the rest of the definition. It
should let me implement a vectored execution scheme without wasting alot of
space on headers. Any comments??

-- 
					Micha Berger

"Always should [the child of] Adam have awe of G-d in secret and in public,
admit the truth, and speak truth in his heart."