Re: ALSO - anything better?

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: ALSO - anything better?
Date	2012-08-17 17:31 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID	<2012Aug17.193155@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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"Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> writes:
>Anton Ertl wrote:
>> "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> writes:
>> ...
>> >I don't like arbitrarily long stacks with strange behaviours whose
>> >contents I barely remember after several pages of code and ALSO
>> >PREVIOUS machinations.
>>
>> The point of a stack is that you don't remember its contents.  You
>> know the top item (or maybe top few items), and everything below is
>> irrelevant.
>
>There are no "irrelevant" items on a wordlist stack as potentially all
>may be searched.

So what?  The words in your code are either from the wordlists you
have put in the search order, or from the background; do you need to
know exactly what the background is?  No, just like you don't need to
know exactly which words are in FORTH-WORDLIST; you only care about
the words that you use.  And it's the responsibility of whoever
includes your code to set up the search order such that it provides
the background your code expects.  In my experience this is no
problem.

Concerning numbers, there are conventions on how they are look, and
word names are normally designed to avoid looking like numbers.  And
if someone does not comply with these conventions, a restricted search
system won't help.  They might put the non-conventional words in any
of the wordlists that you put in CURRENT or CONTEXT.

- anton
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16.6.2.0715 ALSO Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-31 05:33 -0700
  Re: 16.6.2.0715 ALSO anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-07-31 14:43 +0000
    Re: 16.6.2.0715 ALSO Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-31 08:08 -0700
      Re: 16.6.2.0715 ALSO "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2012-07-31 11:35 -0400
  Re: 16.6.2.0715 ALSO Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-07-31 11:03 -0500
  ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-08 16:28 +1000
    Re: ALSO - anything better? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-08 01:22 -0700
      Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-08 10:33 +0000
      Re: ALSO - anything better? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-08 03:52 -0700
        Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-11 22:13 +1000
          Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-11 12:15 +0000
            Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-13 21:22 +1000
              Re: ALSO - anything better? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-13 04:44 -0700
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-14 18:46 +1000
              Re: ALSO - anything better? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-13 10:03 -0500
          Re: ALSO - anything better? Spam@ControlQ.com - 2012-08-11 11:31 -0400
            Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-11 16:01 +0000
              Re: ALSO - anything better? Spam@ControlQ.com - 2012-08-12 16:02 -0400
            Re: ALSO - anything better? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-11 11:37 -0500
          Re: ALSO - anything better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-08-11 08:04 -1000
            Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-12 13:26 +1000
              Re: ALSO - anything better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-08-11 21:55 -1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-14 17:18 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-08-13 21:53 -1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-14 19:25 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-14 19:40 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-15 12:57 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-15 10:09 -0500
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-15 15:12 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-15 10:21 -0500
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-15 16:26 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-15 12:08 -0500
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-15 17:38 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-15 13:10 -0500
                Re: ALSO - anything better? mhx@iae.nl - 2012-08-15 13:49 -0700
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-16 12:34 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-08-16 20:13 +0200
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-17 14:07 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-16 14:08 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-16 02:30 -0700
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-16 11:51 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-18 03:09 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-17 17:13 -0700
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-19 14:13 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-19 09:57 -0700
                Re: ALSO - anything better? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-08-16 10:28 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-16 12:38 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-16 11:07 -0500
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-17 22:12 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-16 12:45 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-08-18 03:14 +1000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-17 17:31 +0000
                Re: ALSO - anything better? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-17 17:14 -0700
                Re: ALSO - anything better? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-08-18 10:16 -0700
                Re: ALSO - anything better? "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2012-08-18 15:41 -0400
              Re: ALSO - anything better? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-08-15 12:14 -0700

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