Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Given a string, create word with that name (in ANS Forth)? Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:40:48 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <87eg4cc1vz.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> References: <41b6c38e-a2c5-43f9-965b-78f0afdf6ebe@googlegroups.com> <2016Sep12.094616@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87fup5h738.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> <2016Sep12.110144@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87bmzshoow.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> <9qGdnYbhwMJINHzKnZ2dnUU7-UWdnZ2d@supernews.com> <2016Sep21.142608@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2aed369a7b4699bde3e169ff4d831123"; logging-data="19156"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/yyYZk+PlnWaTexWSueF/a" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hcoO80g1O7qq4EJXYPJ6L0wkfrU= sha1:R3NcY/PtJ2ds9fHscNEedtuqVu4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:51162 "Elizabeth D. Rather" writes: > All the Forths I'm familiar with (which is several) have a lower level > of factoring than CREATE, segregating the functions of getting the > string and constructing the head of the new definition. The problem is > that the factoring itself differs, which means there is insufficient > standard practice to standardize (the long form of what I was trying > to say above). As long as each Forth has a way to synthesize creating a name from those lower level factors, it should not be a big deal to standardize a high level interface, even if the low level implementations differ between Forths.