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Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum)

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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
> I certainly do find DO unsatisfactory. I don't think it can be settled
> unless we define the body as a lambda, an anonymous piece of code
> that can be executed repeatedly.

I now remember doing something like that in my first Forth program.  It
got tedious and I decided after a while that I was trying to force-fit
conventions from other languages onto Forth, and that this wasn't proper
Forth style.

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A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 14:43 +0100
  Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-03-13 15:05 -0700
    Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-03-14 10:54 +0000
      Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-14 15:13 +0100
        Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-03-14 15:34 +0000
          Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-15 11:55 +0100
        Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-03-14 15:57 -0700
          Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-15 11:42 +0100
            Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-03-15 13:27 -0700
        Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-15 09:55 -0500
          Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-15 10:01 -0500
            Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-15 19:11 +0100
              Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-15 19:36 -0500
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-16 14:28 +0100
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-16 10:53 -0500
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-16 19:25 +0100
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-16 20:25 +0100
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-16 16:52 -0500
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-17 14:24 +0100
          Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-15 19:07 +0100
            Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-15 18:35 -0500
              Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-16 12:26 +0100
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-16 08:20 -0500
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-16 15:29 +0100
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-16 20:07 +0100
                Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-16 14:30 +0100
            Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Gerry Jackson <do-not-use@swldwa.uk> - 2026-03-16 14:42 +0000
              Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-16 20:11 +0100
      Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-14 15:38 +0100
    Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-14 14:54 +0100
      Re: A new DO..LOOP (from 4tH forum) dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-03-15 16:13 +1100

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