Re: Which standard?

From	Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject	Re: Which standard?
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Date	2012-04-11 09:40 -0500

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Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> In article <Vr6dnYp0fe5zHhnSnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d@supernews.com>,
> Andrew Haley  <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
>>Elizabeth D. Rather <erather@forth.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This conversation encapsulates perfectly why NOT remains on the banned list.
>>
>>It does.  I just assumed that, 15 years on, any issue to do with
>>legacy definitions of NOT was dead, so NOT could be resurrected to have
>>its "obviously correct" meaning.  I was wrong, but I still miss being
>>able to say  NOT IF .  Oh well, I suppose it's gone forever.
> 
> I miss it too, but not all is lost.
> My programs often start with a preambule like:
> 
> "
> ..
> WANT prime?
> WANT class
> ..
> : SQ DUP * ;
> : <= > 0= ;
> : NOT 0= ;
> ..
> "
> 
> And then
> 
> : something ................ NOT IF ....... THEN ..  ;

Yeah, I know what you mean.  The trouble is that it rather reminds me
of those Pascal programmers who write C with

#define BEGIN {
#define END }

Ewwww...  :-)

Andrew.

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Re: Which standard? Marc Olschok <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-04-10 12:43 +0000
  Re: Which standard? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-10 10:15 -0500
    Re: Which standard? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-10 08:22 -1000
      Re: Which standard? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-10 14:03 -0500
        Re: Which standard? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-04-10 12:17 -0700
          Re: Which standard? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-10 09:26 -1000
            Re: Which standard? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-04-11 06:22 -0700
        Re: Which standard? Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-04-11 12:42 +0000
          Re: Which standard? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-11 09:40 -0500
            Re: Which standard? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-11 07:55 -0700
              Re: Which standard? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-11 11:28 -0500
  Re: Which standard? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-10 12:38 -0700

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