Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!news.gnuher.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Bernd Paysan Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: CASE mis-understanding? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:50:11 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <52e54d17.461102185@news.demon.co.uk> <530f6242$0$25074$e4fe514c@dreader37.news.xs4all.nl> <7xtxbkmsh0.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <530fa561$0$24919$e4fe514c@dreader36.news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: p4ffb90cb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: online.de 1393894211 22506 79.251.144.203 (4 Mar 2014 00:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 00:50:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.11.5 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:28893 Andrew Haley wrote: >> A is within B C, but if you count the angle counter-clockwise >> instead of clockwise it suddenly isn't. > > I don't know what clockwise has to do with any of this. It works > equally well in both directions: which direction (clockwise or > anticlockwise) is counted as increasing is just a convention. The point here is probably that B < C in the clockwise case, and in the counter-clockwise case, it's B > C. However SWAP WITHIN is as good as WITHIN INVERT. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://bernd-paysan.de/