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From: olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANS FORTH/PICK and ROLL
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Date: 15 Nov 89 20:16:58 GMT
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In article <931@mtk.UUCP> marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes:
	[Discussion of PICK and ROLL deleted]
>How WOULD you get along without them?  I'm not being sarcastic or
>facetious here, I really am curious.  I'd love to get along without
>them.

	I'm trying to remember the last time I used PICK and ROLL
(and failing). I have this bias against them (they seem inelegant to
me), and I've always found that changing the code (including other
words and sometimes the format of the parameter stack stream) to
make PICK and ROLL unnecessary makes the code cleaner in other ways
as well. (I try not to overgeneralize, but in _my_ experience this
has been the case...I literally cannot remember the last time I used
PICK and ROLL).

--Dave

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Dave Weinstein             "No one has ever wanted a new computer language.
olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu   They want an improved Fortran!" -- Chuck Moore
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