Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision
Date	2012-04-13 12:48 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> writes:
>I still prefer the full word; :METHOD in leading colon notation
>and ;METHOD. PUBLIC, PRIVATE, INTERFACE and so on get the full length
>treatment, so why not METHOD?

Method definitions are more frequent than PUBLIC, PRIVATE, or
INTERFACE.  Writing a METHOD twice for each definition is cumbersome
and discourages factoring.  There's a reason why Forth uses ": ... ;"
and not ":definition ... ;definition".

I now lean towards using ":: ... ;;", which also satisfies Doug
Hoffman's requirement.  I thank all responders for their input.

Concerning the question of why I don't just use ";" for the end: ";;"
does more, both when compiling the word and at run-time.

- anton
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Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-04-12 13:08 +0000
  Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-04-12 07:44 -0700
  Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-04-12 11:48 -0400
    Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-04-12 10:05 -0700
      Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-04-12 14:00 -0400
      Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-04-13 12:48 +0000
        Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-04-13 06:57 -0700
        Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision hwfwguy@gmail.com - 2012-04-13 09:32 -0700
    Re: Syntax and backwards compatibility objects.fs revision BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-12 11:10 -0700

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