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Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint

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On Jul 23, 1:14 am, "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erat...@forth.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/12 1:28 PM, Rod Pemberton wrote:
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> > "Aleksej Saushev" <a...@inbox.ru> wrote in message
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> >> Albert van der Horst <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> writes:
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> >>> I would greatly prefer  (: .... ;) .
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> >> It is really bad idea to use anything containing ")" when
> >> you lack proper lexer.
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> > Why exactly is it a bad idea to use ) with Forth's space delimited lexing?
> > You're not placing (: ... ;) inside of comments ( ... ) are you?  A space
> > delimits every token including (: and ;) except for a few Forth words that
> > find their own delimiter.  So, a ) shouldn't be matched unintentionally, as
> > long as you avoid placing (: ... :) in the self-delimited words which use )
> > as a delimiter.  Those are the two Forth words ( and .(   So, you should
> > only have to avoid ( comments and .( for display for proper use of (: ... :)
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> Because a large number of programs, including Thunderbird (my
> newsreader) automatically represents them as smiley-faces.
> Interestingly, the quoted text above did not, because it is text format,
> whereas the original representation on my screen was html, and every ;)
> was converted to a smiley face.
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> Cheers,
> Elizabeth
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:NONAME a different viewpoint Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-22 14:45 +0000
  Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru> - 2012-07-22 21:30 +0400
    Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-07-22 19:28 -0400
      Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-07-22 14:14 -1000
        Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-07-23 04:28 -0700
      Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru> - 2012-07-23 05:35 +0400
        Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-23 15:38 +0000
    Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-23 03:24 +0000
      Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru> - 2012-07-25 03:02 +0400
  Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2012-07-23 07:48 +0200
    Re: :NONAME a different viewpoint Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-22 23:01 -0700

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