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From: Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Modular coding style
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Date: 21 May 91 16:32:37 GMT
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Glen Haydon has been advocating a commenting style where the source
file (or whatever) basically contains English text, and the actual
code is treated as "commentary" that happens to be executed.  Instead
of enclosing the English inside "comment" delimiters, you enclose the
Forth inside "executable" delimiters.  For instance, Forth code might
be enclosed by  )  and  (  :

        )  DUP ROT .   (

If you ignore that fact that the first and last characters of the file may
have to be different, it's it's basically a different way of looking at the
same thing.

I believe that Glen got the idea from Jef Raskin.

Mitch.Bradley@Eng.Sun.COM