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From: marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Random comments
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Date: 4 Aug 89 23:08:31 GMT
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In article <10425@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
>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?

2@ and 2! were intended to fetch and store pairs of single-precision numbers.
D. prints one double-precision number.


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