Re: Test of COMPILE,

From	Tarkin <tarkin000@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Test of COMPILE,
Date	2011-11-29 13:07 -0800
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On Nov 29, 10:50 am, Gerry Jackson <ge...@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:
> On 29/11/2011 11:42, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>
>
> > Anton Ertl<an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>  wrote:
> >> Andrew Haley<andre...@littlepinkcloud.invalid>  writes:
> >>> BruceMcF<agil...@netscape.net>  wrote:
> >>>> IMHO, a defined colon-sys token in that hardware context is a
> >>>> reasonable solution if the implementer wants colon-sys enforcement.
>
> >>> But a well-designed system would not have "colon-sys enforcement",
> >>> IMHO.  It's pointless.
>
> >> The point of "colon-sys enforcement" is detecting and reporting
> >> incomplete control flow, like
>
> >> : foo if ;
> >> 1 foo
>
> > Yes, I know that's the idea, but it's a bad one.  IMHO.
>
> As you seem to like "a ruthless approach to simplification" presumably
> you wouldn't have any check and just let things fail?
>
> --
> Gerry

IMHO, as a fan of "ruthless approaches to simplification":
 fail hard and fail fast.
It's that way with assembler and C pointers, so why not Forth?


TTFN,
  Tarkin

Thread

Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 08:20 -0800
  Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-26 11:36 -0600
    Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 09:44 -0800
    Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 12:14 -0800
      Re: Test of COMPILE, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-26 15:08 -0800
        Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 16:03 -0800
          Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 16:12 -0800
          Re: Test of COMPILE, "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-11-26 17:10 -1000
            Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 19:33 -0800
              Re: Test of COMPILE, "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-11-26 18:28 -1000
              Re: Test of COMPILE, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-27 14:02 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-27 08:42 -0800
              Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-27 09:08 -0800
          Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-27 04:21 -0600
  Re: Test of COMPILE, mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2011-11-26 18:41 +0200
    Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 09:51 -0800
      Re: Test of COMPILE, Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-26 21:31 +0100
        Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 14:09 -0800
      Re: Test of COMPILE, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-27 14:17 +0000
    Re: Test of COMPILE, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-26 10:01 -0800
      Re: Test of COMPILE, mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2011-11-26 20:25 +0200
        Re: Test of COMPILE, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-26 15:04 -0800
      Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 11:23 -0800
        Re: Test of COMPILE, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-26 14:48 -0800
          Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 16:00 -0800
            Re: Test of COMPILE, Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2011-11-27 02:09 +0100
              Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-26 18:11 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-27 00:09 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 00:47 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2011-11-27 10:48 +0200
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 05:24 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-11-27 21:08 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-27 21:18 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-27 16:58 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-28 12:03 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-27 15:00 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-28 11:39 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-28 04:52 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-28 18:05 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-28 12:45 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-28 20:17 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-28 14:22 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 08:08 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-29 04:49 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 16:00 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-30 10:45 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 08:58 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-01 09:46 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-01 12:00 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-28 12:29 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-29 04:53 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-29 11:04 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-29 05:42 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-29 15:46 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-29 09:59 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-11-29 08:55 -1000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2011-11-30 05:58 -0500
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-30 03:07 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-30 07:54 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2011-11-29 15:50 +0000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-29 10:01 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Tarkin <tarkin000@gmail.com> - 2011-11-29 13:07 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-29 17:04 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-11-29 15:52 -1000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-29 21:29 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-11-29 19:52 -1000
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-30 07:49 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-30 10:19 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-30 12:19 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-30 14:31 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-01 10:36 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-12-01 13:08 -0600
                Re: Test of COMPILE, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-12-01 22:04 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-28 05:05 -0800
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-28 06:25 -0600
              Re: Test of COMPILE, mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2011-11-27 08:01 +0200
                Re: Test of COMPILE, Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2011-11-27 14:09 +0100

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