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Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity.

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Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> writes:
> I made later versions of Win32Forth do that too. All strings terminate
> in a null, and all string operations maintain a terminating null.

I've done stuff like that too (not for Forth) but there are
disadvantages, like if you want to write an in-situ parser or otherwise
have objects representing substrings of some big string, that just point
into the memory used by the big string.

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Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org - 2013-05-16 09:18 -0700
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 09:51 -0700
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-05-16 09:46 -1000
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      Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-20 03:27 -0700
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-17 02:34 -0700
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  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-05-17 12:05 +0000
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        Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-17 09:13 -0700
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