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Subject: Conventions and "tricks" used in Forth
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Date: 31 May 91 03:23:30 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 3,  Topic 1
Message 110       Wed May 29, 1991
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 22:50 EDT
 
Re: hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder)

 > What (different) naming conventions are there?

Well, I certainly haven't seen all the possiblities, but here are a few that
I've used:

!name @name .name -> These are clear (I think).

#name -> Can mean "size of" or "number of" depending on context.

+name -name -> Turn on and turn off name.

-name -> Inverse truth value returned by name.

/name -> Initialize name.

>name -> "Into" or "pointer to" name, but can also be "translate to".

'name -> Vector for name.

(name) -> Low level subset of name.

?name -> Takes a truth value.

name? -> Returns a truth value.

These are just a few of what I've used and seen, but I'm sure there are many
more, and this doesn't include the case-sensitive ones mentioned earlier.

DaR
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