Re: Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words…

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words…
Date	2013-07-22 16:01 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>All of which voids the entire point - that an AGAIN loop is *supposed* to be infinate. So if you *do* need to exit the loop, you shouldn't be using it.

Maybe that's your house style, but not everybody has to follow your
house style.  In standard Forth AGAIN is just an unconditional branch
backwards.  You can use it for building infinite loops, but also for
other purposes.

- anton
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How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> - 2013-07-22 11:54 +0200
  Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-07-22 04:18 -0700
    Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> - 2013-07-22 14:31 +0200
      Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… daveyrotten <danw8804@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 08:31 -0700
    Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-07-22 13:56 +0100
      Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-07-22 06:46 -0700
        Re: Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-22 16:01 +0000
          Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 12:31 -0400
            Re: Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-22 16:36 +0000
            Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-07-24 12:18 +1000
            Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-24 02:48 -0500
              Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-07-27 22:15 -0400
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-28 03:37 -0500
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 11:01 -0400
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-29 11:07 -0500
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 12:32 -0400
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-29 11:54 -0500
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 13:19 -0400
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-29 15:27 -0500
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-07-28 03:20 -0700
                Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-28 08:17 -0500
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      Re: Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-07-22 14:12 +0000
        Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-07-22 17:49 +0100
      Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words… hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-07-22 20:25 -0700
  Re: How to abort loops and other return stack fiddling words? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-22 07:54 -0500

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