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| Date | 2013-07-23 10:02 -1000 |
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| From | "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> |
| Organization | FORTH, Inc. |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: counted loops |
| References | <kshgui$bf4$3@dont-email.me> <joSdndjkE9eqIXPMnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@supernews.com> <2013Jul23.193330@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <asudncawHOK8W3PMnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@supernews.com> <51eedde9$0$595$e4fe514c@dreader34.news.xs4all.nl> |
| Message-ID | <fuWdnR4PepjBfHPMnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@supernews.com> (permalink) |
On 7/23/13 9:47 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > In article <asudncawHOK8W3PMnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@supernews.com>, > Elizabeth D. Rather <erather@forth.com> wrote: ... >>>> 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. > > ... see exactly what's going on ... > Exactly what is going on, on your computer. Without consulting the > documentation you don;t know whether this is unambiguous condition > or an implementation defined situation. Isn't what's going on on my computer the most important thing to know? If you're an implementer, the Hays suite should tell you pretty quickly if that's correct. I suppose that, having spent many, many hours writing books and other docs I shouldn't be taking the side of "type and try" learning, but I think there's a place for both. Cheers, Elizabeth -- ================================================== 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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