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From: mburke@eecs.wsu.edu (Matthew Burke - grad student)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Conditional compilation
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.182601.28464@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 18:26:01 GMT
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Reply-To: mburke@yoda.UUCP (Matthew Burke - grad student)
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From what I've seen, I thought there was some (tacit) convention that
words beginning with a dot were ones responsible for printing certain
values (such as .  .U  R.U   .FILES {in PYGMY}  etc.).  I have done my
best to follow this in my own programming as there is, IMO, a lot
going for common conventions.

Personally, my preference would be for #IF  etc.

Matt
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