Re: How could have I factored this better?

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"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
> I don't know how the gForth compiler handles locals.

It's an interpreter and it uses a locals stack, so there's a bit of
overhead to what I did.

>> Forth programs tend to not use anything except possibly naming
>> conventions to prevent words from being globally usable.
> That's right. Reusability is a good thing. If you're a solo
> programmer, you should be able to manage your programs....

Sure.  Part of managing programs is being able to change the interface
to a word and quickly find all the places that call it so you can fix
the calls, and be sure that you can't have missed any.  One way to do
that is limit the word's visibility so that it can only be called from a
specific part of the program.  Of course can still use the word
somewhere else if you decide to.  You just have to update the visibility
(export the word from a module or whatever) first.  Forth lets you do
this with word lists.

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How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 13:09 -0700
  Re: How could have I factored this better? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 16:18 -0400
    Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 10:25 -1000
      Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 13:39 -0700
    Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 21:33 -0400
  Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 10:23 -1000
  Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 15:44 -0700
    Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 14:38 -1000
      Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 17:49 -0700
        Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 14:57 -1000
          Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 18:34 -0700
            Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 16:00 -1000
              Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 20:08 -0700
                Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 17:24 -1000
                Re: How could have I factored this better? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-05-21 18:15 -0700
            Re: How could have I factored this better? Albert van der Horst <albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-05-21 10:01 +0000
          Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 22:15 -0400
            Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 16:46 -1000
            Re: How could have I factored this better? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-05-21 18:36 -0700
              Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 22:51 -0400
                Re: How could have I factored this better? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-05-21 22:23 -0700
      Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 22:43 -0400
    Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 22:19 -0400
  Re: How could have I factored this better? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-21 22:02 +0000
    Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 22:30 -0400
      Re: How could have I factored this better? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 19:40 -0700
  Re: How could have I factored this better? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 19:38 -0700
    Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 23:06 -0400
      Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-21 20:59 -0700
        Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 03:30 -0400
          Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-21 23:14 -1000
  Re: How could have I factored this better? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-05-27 03:54 -0700

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