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| From | Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Is it sill FORTH ? |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
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| Date | 2016-06-14 03:51 -0500 |
Marek Brunda <marekb@phoenics.org> wrote:
>
> When you noted VALUE, can anybody explain the reason, why we have
> VALUEs in addition to VARIABLEs?
You can find the original proposal at
http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V01N4.pdf. Here is the justification:
At the Catalina standardization meeting,
Chuck Moore suggested rapidly the "TO"
construct to aleviate some, if not all, of
the difficulties associated with address
manipulation. This new construction seems
to me extremely powerful. It should con-
siderably decrease the number of errors
and improve the readability of programs.
It is very easy to understand and to use
(much easier in fact than the constructs
it is replacing!). Its implementation is
also trivial but the lack of experience in
using it may hide some difficulties.
I've never been convinced by this line of reasoning, but it's part of
Forth's history.
Note that this original definition of "TO" works in a rather different
way from TO as eventually standardized.
Andrew.
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