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Re: How do you remember the stack?

From Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject Re: How do you remember the stack?
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
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Date 2016-02-22 09:47 -0600

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Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> wrote:
> "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
>> OFW practice what they preach:
>>
>> : do-buffer  ( apf -- adr )
>>    dup >user @  if          ( apf )
>>       >user @                 ( adr )
>>    else                           ( apf )
>>       dup /user# + @      ( apf size )
>>       dup alloc-mem       ( apf size adr )
>>       dup rot erase         ( apf adr )
>>       dup rot >user !       ( adr )
>>    then
>> ;
>>
>> Which code would you prefer to work with - with or without the stack
>> comments?
> 
> I like short words, so I might have written it something like this.
> 
> : alloc-erased ( size -- adr ) dup >r alloc-mem  dup r> erase ;
> 
> : /user ( apf -- size ) /user# + @ ;
> : user@ ( apf -- adr ) >user @ ;
> : user! ( adr apf -- ) >user ! ;
> : alloc-user ( apf -- adr ) /user alloc-erased ;
> : +user ( apf -- ) dup alloc-user swap user! ;
> : ?+user ( apf -- apf ) dup user@ 0= if dup +user then ;
> 
> : do-buffer ( apf -- adr ) ?+user user@ ;

Quite so, yes.

I was about to post somtthing similar, although not as extremely
factored as this.  IMO, rather than spend time annontating the stack
you might as well refactor instead.

Andrew.

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