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Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity.

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity.
Date 2013-05-18 21:01 +0300
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On 05/17/2013 09:13 PM, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:

> Sure. That's what they're good for. Pretty much nothing else. For
> internal use, they're grossly inefficient. If you need to pass an
> internal string outside, it's an easy conversion.

True enough on both counts.

This seems to be a dividing line to some extent between the 'hosted' 
Forths and the native ones.  Those of us who work 'hosted', rely on the 
underlying OS for services ... and the API calls, pretty much without 
exception, require NUL terminated strings.  A native Forth doesn't need 
them at all for any reason.

The reason I eliminated the "zt" word (zero-terminate) from Reva in 
practice was that it was annoying to have to intersperse it all the time 
when calling an external library, and even more annoying when forgotten!

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Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org - 2013-05-16 09:18 -0700
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 09:51 -0700
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-05-16 09:46 -1000
    Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-05-17 15:27 +0000
      Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-20 03:27 -0700
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-17 02:34 -0700
    Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-05-17 11:21 +0100
    Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. The Beez <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 06:45 -0700
      Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. mhx@iae.nl - 2013-05-25 07:41 -0700
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-05-17 12:05 +0000
    Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-17 06:00 -0700
      Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-17 07:33 -0700
        Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-20 03:25 -0700
    Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-17 06:00 -0700
      Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-05-17 15:41 +0000
        Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-17 09:13 -0700
        Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-05-19 11:00 +0100
          Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-05-19 18:39 +0000
    Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 16:09 +0300
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        Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-05-17 12:16 -0700
          Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without sacrificing its simplicity. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 16:25 -0400
      Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-05-17 08:13 -1000
        Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth without  sacrificing its simplicity. Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-18 21:01 +0300
  Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth withoutsacrificing its simplicity. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-05-18 13:23 +1000
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      Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth withoutsacrificingits simplicity. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-05-18 22:33 +1000
        Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth withoutsacrificingits simplicity. Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-05-18 08:50 -0400
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    Re: Reforth - A forth which fixes problematic aspects of Forth withoutsacrificing its simplicity. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-05-18 12:45 +0000
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