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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Locals with a broader scope |
| Date | 2013-02-17 13:24 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2013Feb17.142435@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| References | <a3216023-8480-4845-9975-2e28c763beef@googlegroups.com> <0fb56fee-bbe8-4ed4-8b28-3e59d2520cf4@googlegroups.com> |
Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> writes:
>There's a lot of discussion about local variables here, and the consensus s=
>eems to be that they aren't very useful within the scope of a single word. =
Why do you think that there is such a consensus? Many Forth systems
have locals with a single word as scope, and none have locals with
more than one word as scope, which directly contradicts your claimed
consensus. Certainly within the Forth-94 and Forth-200x committees
the consensus was that locals (within a word) are useful enough to
justify standardizing it as an optional feature.
Concerning your proposal, maybe it will take the Forth world by storm.
Or maybe those who hate locals will hate it, too; and the others may
or may not like it.
- anton
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Locals with a broader scope Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 10:40 -0800
Re: Locals with a broader scope Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-16 13:50 -0800
Re: Locals with a broader scope anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-17 13:24 +0000
Re: Locals with a broader scope Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-17 09:47 -0600
Re: Locals with a broader scope anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-18 13:40 +0000
Re: Locals with a broader scope "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-17 21:34 -1000
Re: Locals with a broader scope Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-18 03:29 -0600
Re: Locals with a broader scope Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-18 17:29 +0100
Re: Locals with a broader scope albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-18 12:05 +0000
Re: Locals with a broader scope anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-18 14:39 +0000
Re: Locals with a broader scope Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 09:04 -0800
Re: Locals with a broader scope Percy <percival.andrews@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 02:33 -0800
Re: Locals with a broader scope anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-19 11:25 +0000
Re: Locals with a broader scope Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-19 11:42 -0600
Re: Locals with a broader scope Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-17 02:00 +0100
Re: Locals with a broader scope Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-02-17 16:51 -0500
Re: Locals with a broader scope "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2013-02-18 07:58 +0100
Re: Locals with a broader scope Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 09:20 -0800
Re: Locals with a broader scope Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 08:27 -0800
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