Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!auth.beige.octanews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: In Forth, is it valid or safe to use the value of 'I' after LOOP? References: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:32:02 -0700 Message-ID: <7xpqcgi9fx.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Organization: Nightsong/Fort GNOX User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:02jZprcSdqnJhT7xsjqtslEHHuw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 11 NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 2012 14:32:02 CDT X-Complaints-To: abuse@octanews.net Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:10093 Mark Wills writes: > So. I think I'm going to disagree. People should develop their own > Forth systems. As a result, they will have a life long appreciation > and affection for the language, even if, like me, they cannot use it > to make a living with. I think someone taking that approach should write a metacompiled implementation completely in Forth except for the lowest level primitives. I thought Jonesforth was great when I first saw it, but after having been around here for a while, I now understand why Forthers don't think much of it.