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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: A formal name? |
| Date | 2017-01-03 12:17 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2017Jan3.131744@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| References | <b2ddded9-c328-4886-9bff-96208871d881@googlegroups.com> |
foxaudioresearch@gmail.com writes:
>I have been scratching my head for a name for the code words that reside in the
>code field of a threaded Forth system.
>
>They are typically called DOCOL, DOCON, DOVAR etc... and we know they reside in
>the code field address, but is there a name for these words as group.
I don't think there has ever been a well-established term for that.
In the Gforth engine source code the comment calls them "run-time
routines for non-primitives". Elsewhere the term "doer" occurs, and
that has also been proposed by someone else, so that may be a good
name for this class of routines.
- anton
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Re: A formal name? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-02 22:05 -1000
Re: A formal name? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-01-03 20:25 -0500
Re: A formal name? foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-01-04 17:10 -0800
Re: A formal name? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-04 16:20 -1000
Re: A formal name? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-01-05 08:20 +0000
Re: A formal name? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-02 21:58 -0800
Re: A formal name? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-01-03 12:17 +0000
Re: A formal name? foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-01-03 08:16 -0800
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