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Re: LatestXT

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Subject Re: LatestXT
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
References (6 earlier) <2011Dec10.123907@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <jc01h1$12b$1@dont-email.me> <jc0l03$33t$1@online.de> <jc14qu$p1u$1@dont-email.me> <_cadnf6YzLeptnnTnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@supernews.com>
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Date 2011-12-11 10:43 +0000
Message-ID <2011Dec11.114352@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)

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"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
>It drove people nuts.  Suppose you typed:
>
>: foo  ( -- ) doors 0 do
>
>...and then thought to yourself, wait a minute, what's the value of 
>doors again? So you type:
>
>doors .
>
>...You will then be very confused because the system just says, "ok" 
>without executing doors and . because what has happened is that the 
>compiler kept right on compiling the definition foo including a 
>reference to doors and . and is still compiling, and will continue until 
>you type ; or an error occurs.
>
>It seemed nice at the time, but caused a lot of trouble.

I don't see the difference between the Forth-94 behaviour and the
PolyForth behaviour here.

- anton
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LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 02:42 +0000
  Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-09 03:43 -0600
    Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 13:12 +0000
    Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-09 13:26 +0000
      Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-09 12:41 -0600
        Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-10 12:24 +0000
          Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-10 12:04 -0600
            Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-11 11:02 +0000
              Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-11 12:21 -0600
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-12 17:35 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-13 05:19 -0600
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-13 15:12 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-13 11:55 -0600
          Re: LatestXT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-12-15 16:30 -0800
            Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-16 17:11 +0000
              Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-16 16:15 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-17 03:22 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-17 15:34 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-12-17 08:04 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-17 17:20 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-17 12:38 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 04:01 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-17 22:06 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 11:47 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-18 08:51 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 01:14 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-18 18:59 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-18 04:40 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 11:31 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-18 06:21 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 12:55 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-19 03:27 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-12-18 07:21 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 01:02 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-12-18 17:32 -0800
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-17 09:43 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-19 20:40 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-17 09:38 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-18 01:08 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-18 01:38 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2011-12-18 13:13 +0100
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-18 08:55 -0800
      Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-09 09:36 -1000
      Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 03:24 +0000
        Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-09 20:12 -0800
        Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-09 18:15 -1000
          Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 10:18 +0000
            Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-10 11:39 +0000
              Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 16:31 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-12-10 23:03 +0100
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-11 02:34 +0000
                Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-10 18:01 -1000
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-11 09:46 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-11 03:55 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-11 11:35 +0000
                Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-11 10:59 -1000
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 02:19 +0000
                Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-11 17:38 -1000
                Re: LatestXT Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-12-12 13:22 +0100
                Re: LatestXT stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2011-12-12 10:34 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 12:32 +0000
                Re: LatestXT stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2011-12-12 14:55 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 16:18 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-12 09:09 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 17:51 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-12 12:03 -0600
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-12 10:51 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-13 12:16 +0000
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-13 15:11 +0000
                Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-13 08:00 -1000
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-12 18:18 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-11 13:26 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-12 03:51 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 11:14 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-12 05:37 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 12:54 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-11 11:05 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2011-12-11 23:25 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-11 16:58 -0800
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-12 17:21 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2011-12-12 21:50 +0000
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-13 16:44 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-12-13 22:13 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-13 11:46 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-13 04:28 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-14 05:40 +0000
                Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-13 21:24 -1000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-14 04:05 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-20 03:48 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-20 08:59 -0600
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 03:21 +0000
                Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-11 17:52 -1000
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-12 12:41 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-12-12 15:00 +0100
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-12 09:37 -0800
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-11 10:43 +0000
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-11 10:21 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-12-12 12:58 +0100
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-11 03:35 -0600
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-11 10:47 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-12 03:54 -0600
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-12 17:20 +0000
                Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-12 11:53 -0600
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-10 14:21 -0800
                Re: LatestXT Arnold Doray <thinksquared@gmail.com> - 2011-12-11 02:37 +0000
                Re: LatestXT BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-11 11:13 -0800
                Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-11 11:25 +0000
                Re: LatestXT "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-12-11 08:55 -1000
        Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-10 02:49 -0600
          Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-10 12:06 +0000
            Re: LatestXT Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-10 12:11 -0600
          Re: LatestXT Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2011-12-10 12:33 +0000
      Re: LatestXT Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-10 18:52 +0000
        Re: LatestXT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-12-11 10:50 +0000

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