Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.forth > #40504

Re: local variable

Subject Re: local variable
References (17 earlier) <mnoo9j$1ck$1@dont-email.me> <40c66af5-0dab-46b6-aafe-60aad5b38337@googlegroups.com> <mnosts$jps$1@dont-email.me> <ca244d70-ca11-4e92-9cd4-6b61e5e6da5e@googlegroups.com> <mnp1t6$7a4$1@dont-email.me>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
From "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com>
Organization FORTH, Inc.
Date 2015-07-10 09:06 -1000
Message-ID <SeWdnQLMOt1Zij3InZ2dnUU7-eWdnZ2d@supernews.com> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

On 7/10/15 8:13 AM, Alex McDonald wrote:
> on 10/07/2015 18:28:48, Mark Wills wrote:
>> I was wondering what the benefit of quotations might be. They seem
>> rather pointless to me. "Me too" features.
>>
>
> .. [: refill drop interpreter ;] catch ...
>
> This is part of QUIT. It could have been
>
> : quit-interpret refill drop interpreter ;
>
> .. ['] quit-interpreter catch ...
>
> I believe quotations to be clearer. They're also very simple to
> implement.
>

Clarity is in the eye of the beholder. In my experience, the thing 
you're most likely to want to CATCH is a lot more complicated than this 
example, and deserves to be its own definition.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

-- 
==================================================
Elizabeth D. Rather   (US & Canada)   800-55-FORTH
FORTH Inc.                         +1 310.999.6784
5959 West Century Blvd. Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90045
http://www.forth.com

"Forth-based products and Services for real-time
applications since 1973."
==================================================

Back to comp.lang.forth | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-04 19:52 -0700
  Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-05 07:24 +0100
    Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 02:04 -0700
      Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-05 10:36 +0100
        Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 03:25 -0700
          Re: local variable Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-07-05 15:28 +0200
            Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 08:11 -0700
              Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 08:21 -0700
                Re: local variable Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-07-05 23:53 +0200
                Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 20:31 -0700
            Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-05 19:56 -0700
        Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-05 19:57 -0700
          Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-06 08:09 +0100
            Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-06 19:59 -0700
              Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-07 08:30 +0100
                Re: local variable Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 00:35 -0700
                Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 01:41 -0700
                Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-10 13:55 +0100
                Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 07:13 -0700
                Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-10 16:29 +0100
                Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 08:57 -0700
                Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-10 17:48 +0100
                Re: local variable Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-10 10:02 -0700
                Re: local variable "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-16 17:30 +0000
                Re: local variable Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:28 -0700
                Re: local variable "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-10 08:00 -1000
                Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-10 21:31 -0700
                Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-10 19:13 +0100
                Re: local variable "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-10 09:06 -1000
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-11 14:10 +0000
                Re: local variable humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 10:14 -0700
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-12 15:56 +0000
                Re: local variable humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-07-12 11:48 -0700
                Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 21:21 -0700
                Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-10 21:56 -0700
                Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-11 23:51 +0100
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-11 13:42 +0000
                Re: local variable franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-12 02:17 -0700
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-12 15:12 +0000
                Re: local variable franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-13 02:37 -0700
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-13 16:13 +0000
                Re: local variable franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-13 14:48 -0700
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-14 06:41 +0000
                Re: local variable franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-14 01:44 -0700
                Re: local variable Bernd Linsel <bl1@gmx.com> - 2015-07-11 11:03 +0200
                Re: local variable Bernd Linsel <bl1@gmx.com> - 2015-07-11 11:11 +0200
                Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-12 16:43 -0700
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-11 15:14 +0000
                Re: local variable Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 17:57 -0700
                Re: local variable anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-12 15:32 +0000
                Re: local variable "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-07-10 13:13 +0100
                Re: local variable hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-07-10 21:48 -0700
      Re: local variable franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-05 03:47 -0700
        Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 04:15 -0700
          Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 04:27 -0700
            Re: local variable Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 04:39 -0700
          Re: local variable franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-05 07:08 -0700

csiph-web