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| From | stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Loop structures |
| Message-ID | <511cbf8e.112927189@192.168.0.50> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <511ba2e3$0$87235$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org> <75bdd96b-6e54-4164-825a-b8e14d8f9ef1@k14g2000vbv.googlegroups.com> <e1be8b64-7283-4abe-a7f0-408576f212b9@googlegroups.com> <511bcdf6.51078954@192.168.0.50> <355ba332-c055-4b48-a6e4-ecd495c87da6@g8g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> |
| Date | 2013-02-14 10:53 +0000 |
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:17:32 -0800 (PST), Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's the angels dancing on the head of a pin problem. ... >"In modern usage, this question also serves as a metaphor for wasting >time debating topics of no practical value." In England, there's always the debate in council meetings about the colour of the toilet walls. A simple thought experiment tells you that a compiler can transform <lit> ?branch into jmp or <null> Thus the question is really about whether it is worth doing. Should we reward bad code with bad code? VFX has switches +POLITE and -POLITE which control whether warnings about literals in conditional branches are displayed. One rarely has success in teaching people to read warning messages. Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691 web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads
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Loop structures kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2013-02-06 03:55 -0600
Re: Loop structures Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-06 04:24 -0600
Re: Loop structures Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 05:38 -0800
Re: Loop structures Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-06 10:43 -0800
Re: Loop structures "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2013-02-08 03:46 -0500
Re: Loop structures awegel@arcor.de (Alex Wegel) - 2013-02-06 20:19 +0100
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-07 20:27 +1100
Re: Loop structures Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-07 17:03 +0100
Re: Loop structures awegel@arcor.de (Alex Wegel) - 2013-02-08 00:43 +0100
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-09 20:52 +1100
Re: Loop structures Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-09 18:05 -0600
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-10 11:48 +1100
Re: Loop structures awegel@arcor.de (Alex Wegel) - 2013-02-11 01:41 +0100
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-11 12:56 +1100
Re: Loop structures "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-10 17:54 -1000
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-12 15:11 +1100
Re: Loop structures Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-13 09:49 -0600
Re: Loop structures Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 23:32 -0800
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-13 12:34 +1100
Re: Loop structures "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-12 15:49 -1000
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-13 14:48 +1100
Re: Loop structures Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-12 23:02 -0800
Re: Loop structures Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-12 23:29 -0800
Re: Loop structures albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-13 13:35 +0000
Re: Loop structures Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-13 15:17 +0100
Re: Loop structures Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-13 09:01 -0800
Re: Loop structures albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-13 20:22 +0000
Re: Loop structures anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-14 16:29 +0000
Re: Loop structures albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-14 18:41 +0000
Re: Loop structures Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-14 21:44 +0100
Re: Loop structures albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-14 21:06 +0000
Re: Loop structures Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-14 23:51 +0100
Re: Loop structures mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2013-02-15 00:56 +0200
Re: Loop structures anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-15 09:53 +0000
Re: Loop structures m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-02-15 03:36 -0800
Re: Loop structures anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-15 09:44 +0000
Re: Loop structures Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2013-03-04 13:04 +0100
Re: Loop structures albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-03-04 13:22 +0000
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-15 13:09 +1100
Re: Loop structures Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-14 19:21 -0800
Re: Loop structures albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-15 13:01 +0000
Re: Loop structures Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-15 07:51 -0800
Re: Loop structures Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 10:51 -0800
Re: Loop structures "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-15 13:11 +1100
Re: Loop structures "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-14 21:31 -1000
Re: Loop structures Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 00:18 -0800
Re: Loop structures alberto@hal-pc.org - 2013-02-13 14:27 +0000
Re: Loop structures Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 07:08 -0800
Re: Loop structures m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-02-13 08:23 -0800
Re: Loop structures stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-02-13 17:32 +0000
Re: Loop structures Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 23:17 -0800
Re: Loop structures stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-02-14 10:53 +0000
Re: Loop structures stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-02-14 13:42 +0000
Re: Loop structures "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 21:25 -0800
Re: Loop structures "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 21:18 -0800
Re: Loop structures Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 23:15 -0800
Re: Loop structures mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2013-02-14 22:08 +0200
Re: Loop structures Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 22:53 -0800
Re: Loop structures awegel@arcor.de (Alex Wegel) - 2013-02-12 16:00 +0100
Re: Loop structures kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2013-02-13 03:49 -0600
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