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Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem

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Subject Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem
Date Wed, 10 May 2017 00:59:57 -0700
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Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> writes:
> I believe Thinking Forth advises to not pass around boolean flags

Oh that's interesting, I hadn't known about that.  But don't all the
usual comparison words like < return flags?  I wonder what the problem
is.

> : go   0 begin 1+ dup check again ;

I still like Julian's version better.  I'd forgotten about UNTIL.

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Rosetta: Babbage problem "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-05-09 08:29 +0000
  Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem mhx@iae.nl - 2017-05-09 12:58 -0700
    Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-09 20:43 -0700
      Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 23:43 -0700
        Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-10 09:06 +0200
          Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 00:27 -0700
            Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-10 09:32 +0200
          Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-10 00:59 -0700
            Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-10 08:14 -0500
      Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem mhx@iae.nl - 2017-05-10 02:59 -0700
        Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Bruno Gauthier <bgauthier@free.fr> - 2017-05-15 12:25 +0200
          Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem mhx@iae.nl - 2017-05-15 04:17 -0700
            Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Bruno Gauthier <bgauthier@free.fr> - 2017-05-15 13:48 +0200
              Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 04:56 -0700
                Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem Bruno Gauthier <bgauthier@free.fr> - 2017-05-15 16:33 +0200
              Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem mhx@iae.nl - 2017-05-15 10:53 -0700
              Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-05-15 21:39 +0200
  Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-05-18 09:23 +0000
    Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-05-18 09:29 +0000

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