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| Date | 2013-07-23 22:42 -1000 |
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| From | Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> |
| Organization | FORTH, Inc |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: counted loops |
| References | (6 earlier) <2013Jul23.144213@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <joSdndjkE9eqIXPMnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@supernews.com> <2013Jul23.193330@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <asudncawHOK8W3PMnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@supernews.com> <2013Jul24.101323@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> |
| Message-ID | <dr-dnRdQyc3HDnLMnZ2dnUVZ_oydnZ2d@supernews.com> (permalink) |
On 7/23/2013 10:13 PM, Anton Ertl wrote: > "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes: >> On 7/23/13 7:33 AM, Anton Ertl wrote: >>> "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes: >>>> If I'm sitting at my computer I can type in: >>>> >>>> : test ( h l -- ) ?DO I . -5 +LOOP ; >>>> >>>> ...in about 5 seconds. >>> >>> You are a fast typist. But with that code you have only tested that >>> ?DO...+LOOP compiles. Compiling is not the problematic case. >> >> No, the point is that test is now a word to which I can feed parameters >> and see exactly what's going on. > > And that takes additional time. And will the user think of all the > test cases that show problematic behaviour? And all of that in less > than 25s? Probably not. It's just a matter of personal testing style. Where I'm coming from is testing a word in an application setting. You are getting an unexpected result. You make a few simple tests using data that is within the range you're interested in to see exactly how +LOOP is working. Cheers, Elizabet -- ================================================== Elizabeth D. Rather (US & Canada) 800-55-FORTH FORTH Inc. +1 310.999.6784 5959 West Century Blvd. Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90045 http://www.forth.com "Forth-based products and Services for real-time applications since 1973." ==================================================
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