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From: glenn@ludwig.sharebase.com (Glenn Linderman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: POSTFIX control structures
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Date: 22 Mar 91 22:52:52 GMT
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: POSTFIX control structures
References: <9103210411.AA14477@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <9103210411.AA14477@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UNBCIC%BRFAPESP.BITNET@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV writes:
>I'm thinking in start to use postfix control structures. It should be easy to
>add:
>: PF-IF IF EXECUTE THEN ;
>: PF-WHILE SWAP >R BEGIN WHILE R@ EXECUTE REPEAT R> DROP ;
>and things like that. BUT.... how should I name them? Has anyone did something
>like this before? I want a good name convention...
>
>                              (8-DCS)
>Daniel C. Sobral
>UNBCIC@BRFAPESP.BITNET

Careful: You may have meant

: PF-IF IF EXECUTE ELSE DROP THEN ;


Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: POSTFIX control structures
References: <9103210411.AA14477@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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Keywords: postfix,control,structures

In article <9103210411.AA14477@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UNBCIC%BRFAPESP.BITNET@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV writes:
>I'm thinking in start to use postfix control structures. It should be easy to
>add:
>: PF-IF IF EXECUTE THEN ;
>: PF-WHILE SWAP >R BEGIN WHILE R@ EXECUTE REPEAT R> DROP ;
>and things like that. BUT.... how should I name them? Has anyone did something
>like this before? I want a good name convention...
>
>                              (8-DCS)
>Daniel C. Sobral
>UNBCIC@BRFAPESP.BITNET

Careful: You may have meant

: PF-IF IF EXECUTE ELSE DROP THEN ;