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From: RAYBRO%HOLON%UTRC@UTRCGW.UTC.COM ("William R Brohinsky", ay)
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Subject: Re: HP 48SX uses Forth?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 12:05:00 GMT
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Christopher Browne writes:
>different from the typical useage of the word "THEN" in English:
>"If I have $50, THEN I will pay the shareware fee"

Different `typical' English dialects reign in different parts of the
world. (This is not to be construed as a slur on Canadien English:
I grew up in Plattsburgh, and there's a lot more people who don't speak
English very well on the southern side of that border!)

In some places in the USA, I've heard:

"Lessee, I got $50? Good: I can pay the Shareware, then"

Maybe this is the sort of thing Charles Moore had to listen to when
he was formulating FORTH?

For what it's worth, it is quite common to rename THEN to END-IF.
Just remember to make it fairly obvious in your code that this is what
you are doing.

I remember that THEN and END-IF were equivalent in some early versions
of forth, including, if I remember, the distributed fig-forth model.

raybro