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Re: macro expansion ?

From Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Date 2011-06-29 13:11 +0100
Message-ID <2011062913114214583-chrishinsley@gmailcom> (permalink)
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Subject Re: macro expansion ?

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On 2011-06-29 09:15:10 +0100, Andrew Haley said:

> Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I think I'm rapidly getting into the 'but you wouldn't do it like that'
>> teritory. You'd just define a word that did the calcutation, and then
>> use it with somthing like [ 15 5 GCD ] LITERAL.
> 
> Exactly.  You're already got immediate words, which are like LISP
> macros in that they do computation at runtime; they're not just
> expanded.  Simple text macros are just a limited version of the same
> idea.
> 
> Andrew.

I kind of knew that's where this conversation was going. ;)

Can anyone see a good reason for keeping this MACRO word at all ? I 
might just bin it.

Chris

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macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 14:43 +0100
  Re: macro expansion ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-06-28 10:58 -0500
    Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 18:34 +0100
      Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 18:51 +0100
        Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 19:02 +0100
          Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 19:11 +0100
            Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 19:17 +0100
              Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 19:47 +0100
                Re: macro expansion ? Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2011-06-29 15:34 +0000
                Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 19:21 +0100
            Re: macro expansion ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-06-29 03:15 -0500
              Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 13:11 +0100
            Re: macro expansion ? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-06-29 17:17 +0100
              Re: macro expansion ? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-06-29 18:09 +0100
                Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 19:32 +0100
                Re: macro expansion ? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-07-02 08:48 +0100
    Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 00:44 +0100
    Re: macro expansion ? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-06-29 20:39 +0100
  Re: macro expansion ? Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2011-06-28 08:59 -1000
    Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 20:39 +0100
      Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 21:34 +0100
        Re: macro expansion ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-06-29 03:26 -0500
  Re: macro expansion ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-06-29 11:25 +0000
    Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 13:24 +0100
      Re: macro expansion ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-07-03 14:02 +0000
    Re: macro expansion ? Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-06-29 18:48 +0000
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  Re: macro expansion ? Ian Osgood <iano@quirkster.com> - 2011-07-02 16:22 -0700
  Re: macro expansion ? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-05 17:35 -0700

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