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From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: One Closure for myFORTH was Re: CATCH and THROW
Message-ID: <1796.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 29 Sep 90 02:24:04 GMT
References: <955@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
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In <955@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>, shri@ncst.ernet.in (H.Shrikumar) writes:
>    To add to wmb's observations about ' and ['], I also dislike "No
> DO ... LOOP from Interpret Mode" and things like that. I enjoy UNIX
> shell just due to these constructs, and I want them on my system too.
> (Write a command, add a pipe or a while... (so-on) .. and when happy
> bottle it in a shell-script.)

I think the (old) traditional response is that block editting was
supposed to be soooooooo easy that you would edit words in blocks
loading and reloading until you were happy.  It solves the problem of
command histories, and such, raised by interactive control structures.

-Doug
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