Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!auth.brown.octanews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Is there a better way? References: <70a117c1-ba9f-474b-97f3-6440be3d4573@k20g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> <5091264d$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <53c1b304-a287-4580-b783-c78f000ab08a@h16g2000vby.googlegroups.com> <2012Nov2.183108@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <7xehkb7vnx.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <2012Nov2.191217@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:30:30 -0700 Message-ID: <7xobjf97sp.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Organization: Nightsong/Fort GNOX User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cHTddrkChr8YZmtvmoRLhntnaYI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 8 NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Nov 2012 13:30:33 CDT X-Complaints-To: abuse@octanews.net Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:16990 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes: > The other way would be to write STR= and STR<, just like there is D= > and D< (and likewise, there is no F> F<= F>=, U<=, U>=, and U> is Core > Ext). Forthers know how to use this kind of comparison. How would you defined STR<= in terms of STR= and STR< without having to scan the string twice? F<= doesn't face that issue to the same extent, since floats are fixed-size.