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Subject: PYGMY Forth
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Date: 18 Mar 90 00:23:14 GMT
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Category 1,  Topic 45
Message 27        Sat Mar 17, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 15:47 CST
 
MB> "Cleverness" (aha! this just happens to work so I'll use it) MB> at the
expense of clarity is one of the things that gives Forth MB> a bad name in the
computer community at large.

  To Mitch Bradley on UseNet

     Yes, you are right, thanks.  The tiny savings by not defining a  C@+ or
whatever cannot justify the negative mnemonic value of using  COUNT
inappropriately.  I now plan to correct this.

   The next problem is that I like the name C@+ for this  ( a - a+1 c) while I
think botFORTH & cmFORTH would tuck the char under the address,  which is
useful also.  Tentatively I'll go with calling it C@+.

     -- Frank
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