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From: hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Naming conventions
Message-ID: <1991May27.164816.26616@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 27 May 91 16:48:16 GMT
References: <9105242031.AA02014@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <9105242031.AA02014@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) writes:
>Forth programmers used to F83 might think that #BUFFER signifies the
>number of characters in the buffer, not the buffer itself (cf. #TIB ,
>#OUT , #LINE ).  Furthermore, conventions like this that are not clearly
>articulated in an accepted "style guide" confuse newcomers to no end.

>source later on.  Many of those people will not be Forth gurus, and thus
>will not know all the little quirks of the many Forth naming conventions.

What (different) naming conventions are there?

	Ernst

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